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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ultural-incursion-from-the-north-1917441.html
This is interesting. As one that stands both on the outside looking back in, and as one shaped by this culture, I find it fascinating that Stieg Larsson has reached the fame he has.
He is nearly iconic in Sweden, although I felt that his stories were pretty thin. Lisbeth Salander may be an unusual heroine, morally ambigous as she is, without the rightous drive of other famous swedish fictional MCs. Maybe this moral ambiguity is the reason why she became so prominent in Swedish popular literature?
Now, this is of course dubbed as mysteries, but I think the Larsson-books qualify as mainstream too.
But it is interesting, although the article exaggerates a fad into a phenomena, that Sweden has produced so many internationally acclaimed writers: from Sjöwall-Wahlöö, to Henning Mankell, to Marie Fredriksson, and now Stieg Larsson.
This is interesting. As one that stands both on the outside looking back in, and as one shaped by this culture, I find it fascinating that Stieg Larsson has reached the fame he has.
He is nearly iconic in Sweden, although I felt that his stories were pretty thin. Lisbeth Salander may be an unusual heroine, morally ambigous as she is, without the rightous drive of other famous swedish fictional MCs. Maybe this moral ambiguity is the reason why she became so prominent in Swedish popular literature?
Now, this is of course dubbed as mysteries, but I think the Larsson-books qualify as mainstream too.
But it is interesting, although the article exaggerates a fad into a phenomena, that Sweden has produced so many internationally acclaimed writers: from Sjöwall-Wahlöö, to Henning Mankell, to Marie Fredriksson, and now Stieg Larsson.