Nordic Noir: Fact, fiction, fetish, fantasy
2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00582-9
ISSN2215-0374
Autores Tópico(s)Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
ResumoMany years ago, I was running to catch a flight and unusually for me was one of the last to board. As I turned to get to my seat, I was struck by an image of virtually every passenger holding a copy of a Stieg Larsson book. It was as if it was an alien plane and there seemed to be a diktat that you had to have the book before being allowed to fly. Other successful Scandinavian crime writers include Håkam Nasser, Jens Lapidus, Camilla Läckberg, Lars Kepler, Camilla Ceder, Lars Gustafsson, Johan Theorin, Börge Hellström and Anders Roslund (writing as a duo), Karin Alvtegen, Jan Bondeson, Stefan Tegenfalk, and many others. Several authors, including Jo Nesbø, have been described as the successor to Larsson—it seems to be a badge of honour. The success of so-called Nordic Noir or Scandi-noir has produced several volumes of analyses. Translation into many other languages—and onto television and cinema screens—has made Nordic Noir a truly global phenomenon. How could a world be gripped by a book genre?
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