“Amanda Smith, author of”
“When the poem surpasses the reality”
“Jenny Högström on a magnificent romanbygge”
“I had heard Amanda Svensson talk about her new novel in a variety of contexts and interviews several times before I started to read it. Anyway, I had no idea what was coming. Perhaps because any attempt to summarize – not least a comprehensive, mångförgrenad and ambitious story, a real romanroman – misses the point. Or that the document is not everything. Or to the is so much.”
“the Family were the keywords I had picked up. This form of device that people have to relate to, whether they want to or not. This urpsykologiska powder keg. And with the bourgeois family, for such it is unambiguously the question of, will not infrequently they hid familjehemligheterna. But even if their function is not to destroy the become the post to the lies that imperceptibly permeates everything. “
“In the center of Amanda Svensson’s fourth novel is the triplets, Clara, Matilda and Sebastian. When it pulls in again after a short recap is 27 years, Sebastian’s girlfriend has just taken the life of himself and the siblings thrown to the wind: all of the has tightened its hold to lick their wounds. “
“’t have a mind for the fantastic, madness and science, passion, sensuality, beauty, conspiracy theories and a certain amount of melodrama do, with other words non the trouble.”
“Riksdeprimerade Sebastian has been working on a neurovetenskapligt institutions you are in London, where he is awarded the mysterious mission, überneurotiska Clara stands to easter Island to do a story about the earth’s destruction and the extraordinarily koleriska psykbrytet Matilda, which is also synestet, go to the north of sweden with guy and the children on summer vacation. “
“Moreover, there is a mother, a somewhat absent father, a possibly förväxlingsdrama, and a host of strong supporting roles.”
“This is, in other words, what one usually call for a wide landscaped novel. And if it’s been said that reality surpasses the poem, it is in A system so magnificent that it dazzles instead the poem that surpasses the reality, time and time again.”
“It is, as several critics have already pointed out, not a usualness, in the Swedish samtidslitteraturen. A novel is a novel on the novel’s premise. And a writer who is a writer. “
“the Closest I’m actually going to think about Gabriella Håkansson with his Aldermanntrilogi kids resisting everything what autofiktion and contemporaries are called.”
“as well As Håkansson is Amanda Svensson in addition to an author who has the language in its hand and seems to have a lot of fun. It gives, in all cases, her relaxed and lively design impression of. And it infects: A system so magnificent that it dazzles are both entertaining, captivating and touching. “
“at the same time drawn increasingly into the romankonstruktionen: the climate cataclysm, brain research, art, Dakota Fanning. The relationship between man and nature. Nature and culture. “
“Patterns – meaningful or meaningless, small or large. Related, conspiracies. Svensson laborerar delighted with everything she has for hands, and the language is not only a messenger but also her subject.”
“However, I can’t decide what it is I am reading. A bourgeois novel with the entire world as their scene? A romantic comedy? The Da Vinci code? “
“Trillingmotivet gives in each case a fairly clear indication that it is a novel in överdrifternas characters. The who does not have a mind for the fantastic, madness and science, passion, sensuality, beauty, conspiracy theories and a certain amount of melodrama do, with other words non the trouble. “
“Nevertheless, it is something to gnaw. It may be that the aim is to deconstruct and question this kind of meaning-system or pattern, in parallel with the fragile bourgeois familjeillusionen inventoried. “
“But in the end I feel that it will be the opposite, and that they were cemented. How fond I am of the other, this makes me quite annoyed. “
“A system so magnificent that it dazzles”
