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Malin Lindroth’s new novel “Rolf” is extremely cleverly written
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Malin Lindroth received the Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 1999. The breakthrough came in 2018 with the essay book “Nuckan”.
When Rolf as a child is playing hide and seek in the forest, finds an incomparable hiding place under a root canal. The problem is that nobody can find it. He hears the others being found under noise and laughter, but he stays and freezes himself for hours after everyone has left home. He “waits and waits for the recognition that is rightfully mine, but nothing special happens.”
He wins the game, he thinks, but he has lost something basic, unspoken: he is destined to be found. It may even be the most fun you come across in the first place. Rolf’s error of judgment and reaction in the game of hide and seek is a brilliant representation of a social incapacity that will characterize his entire life. Gradually, when you add experience to the psychologist’s kitchen mating experience, it also makes it dangerous.
Malin Lindroth have He has written stories, novels, poetry, and drama since the 1990s. The breakthrough came with nonfiction, the essay book “Nuckan” two years ago, which is an excellent and important book. But the new novel, short and well titled “Rolf”, shows that she is a fictional writer who is truly sovereign.
Here she translates her keen capacity for observation and her sense of absurd gaps in human relationships into prose that is both dramatically unforgiving, humorous, and lyrically moving.
When we meet Rolf, he has murdered a 20-year-old girl and is waiting for an officer at his house for the orderly power to come and arrest him. Meanwhile, think “write down everything you need to know to get into my case.” The resulting document must be “legally valid”.
A hard nut, that Rolf. Unfortunately, as usual, he has to wait for recognition, so he is forced to register for an eternity and also go shopping for food and refreshments in Sapphire’s life among the courtyards. From his pompous fantasies of how to stoically drive by the arm of the police car and then be interviewed by a psychologist, “It should be interesting to hear how professionals judge my psyche,” is becoming an increasingly solid existence where it is impossible. keep the style.
The novel is by Rolf text, in du form. Writing from within that person requires concentration and mastery. Lindroth knows exactly who this 60-year-old Komvux teacher is, who has been around for thirty years. I feel when I read that I too, scary enough.
Rolf meets Pinkie, 20, who he calls her, in a workshop at the school where he sits and works. She makes bloody cuts on his arms, and an apparently loving ritual emerges around them that takes Rolf beyond the lack of contact he has lived in until now.
As a reader, you know from the start that something strange will happen, but their shapes are slowly revealed by Rolf’s dry temperament of cynical distance and bitter self-esteem.
It’s disgusting Like a Thousand The novel turns into a short-form hard rock thriller with a very contemporary fire conflict between the covers.
Who’s Pinkie In Rolf’s version, she looks like a bad stereotype, an epigone of pink-haired Linnéa Claeson, solidly messy and broken, albeit with middle-class vegan dreams. A young woman today with a razor blade in her hand. Rolf is very happy to accept it.
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