As fiction are Liberation no great experience. As a basis for initiating discussion or thoughts it is however efficient, believes Bella Stenberg. Maria Sveland achieve the objective, she stated: breaking the fat blunting we all live with.
Sometimes it feels like a constant, low-intensity war. Where the vast majority do not participate, without looking at or are passive. Maria Sveland are right that we are dulled. That some types of violence are so normalized that we do not react. And not enough questioning how responsibility is often placed on the victim instead of the perpetrator.
Reality Örebroman was for five years and sentenced for 14 attacks. In the fictional serial rapist Orebro is just like in reality women who adapts. Avoiding certain roads, going home in a group, or even go out. Which not only draws on its geography based on fear, but also internalize it.
One of Sveland points is the threat of sexual violence becomes a broader force. Something that constantly affect.
When the police are not going anywhere and protests are not enough, a group of women enough. As women’s liberation front, they decide to attack and mistreat randomly selected men as long as the rapist goes free. They hide in parks darkness, attack single men with kicks and punches. Reverse the roles, but not reverse reactions.
That should not even need to be said – especially in light of the current literary debate – but Maria Sveland is very clear in interviews. Revenge and attacks on innocent men are not advocating. The title is additionally ironic. Feeling the book leaves behind is anything but liberating. The women involved feel shame, intellectual and physical, for the attacks.
Contrary to what you might think is attacked in focus. It is more about everyday life and the way there: what can happen when someone gets enough. And for those who just wear out. Frequently women with regular jobs.
Cecilia, a young journalist who failed to turn around in Stockholm, but had to move back to childhood city for a temporary position. Her mother Marianne whole life working in elderly care, with frequent cuts and pain in the body. One of the dreams and one who contented themselves. How hard they have to reach each other.
Helena, in Cecilia’s age but the colleague with Marianne. A nursing assistant struggling with who she wants to be and what she wants, which no longer knows for sure what are her thoughts, and social norms. That slips ever further from his trevlige partner and caught up in man’s violence.
Kajsa, police with husband and teenage daughter. As the interrogation the raped, abused women and is constantly fatigued, stressed and so close to burnout. When she after much opposition got through the police to take DNA samples of all Örebromän between 25 and 35 years old, she becomes the target of Flashback and internet hate. Uncomfortable reading, but only a fraction of the Sveland itself exposed to.
The structures are like an actor in itself. Worn in care, the constant understaffing. How a woman in the police do not get through its proposal until a man agrees. How a male media chief advantages of jobs and use the language of force. Blinders of those involved. The countless examples of sexual violence and force – or the threat of it.
Two wrongs does not make a right – but Sveland visible frustration. In several scenes, she writes reader on your nose instead of letting hen yourself see the patterns and structure. But perhaps she is so tired that there is no change that she can not help.
relief have the same problems as Sveland earlier novels. Like the debut Bitterfittan is the two books in one, a novel story and an impassioned, but this solution is more integrated. Lectures will enter mainly through women’s group, at each meeting let someone give lectures. But that does not make them less lecturing. Like the Running is her gallery of more typical example than people, where the rapist from questioning the lines become one of the more nuanced signed. Sveland is simply more of a systems critic and journalist than a creative writer. But she burns, stands on the victim’s side.
At the press conference where police announce that they will topsa all men ranting the unsympathetic journalist of collective guilt where innocent men are punished for something they did not done. He asks, “How do you think now that it feels to be a man in Örebro these days?” When the police Kajsa counters with “How do you think it feels to be a woman in Orebro these days?” It becomes quiet in the room. Then it is she who crossed a border. Innocent is a trigger word, but not in all situations.
The exemption bestows who said no sense of relief. No fighting spirit or hope, rather, fatigue and discouragement. The anger will perhaps. That fiction is no great experience, but it is intense. As a basis for initiating discussion or thoughts – it stays with me a long time – it is efficient and relevant. Maria Sveland achieve the objective, she stated: breaking the fat blunting we all live with.
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When the police will not get anywhere in the hunt for a serial rapist and protests are not enough get a group of women enough in the Maria Sveland new novel relief . As women’s liberation front, they decide to attack and mistreat randomly selected men as long as the rapist goes free.
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Bella Stenberg is cultural writer and the critics, and regularly participates in the GP’s cultural pages. Reviewed the latest Fred Vargas Circle Cartoonist .
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