“Nakenchock that goes under the skin”
“Lidija Praizovic tribute to Helena Österlund self-disclosure new roman”
“Helena Österlund previous books have not remained in me. I remember the poetry the Word and the colors and Self-portraits (are your lips in a particular manner when they are waiting) and the short novel Kari 1983 as beautiful and important, but they don’t really touched upon. They felt too vague, narrow, and allegorical.”
“The new 500-page autobiographical novel, My vulnerable body stays at the same themes – the vulnerability of the body, in the psyche, in relationships – but in a completely different way: explicit, delivered and communicating. Risk-taking is much greater.”
“I think a lot of things about the book, and the fingers dance over the keyboard when I write the review.”
“it’s about Helena who, after a difficult separation goes down in the depression. But the joy of life walk she was thinking about suicide. Will be posted on the psyche and may antidepressant medication. Out in society, she starts to sexdejta on the web and a large part of the book consists of detailed portrayals of sex with unknown men in different apartments in Stockholm. Österlund is a good sexskildrare and sexscenerna is exciting.”
“She sees herself as a monstrous spindelhona that, when the males will come into her network chaps them up.”
“It is fascinating to observe how many men are already in the chat makes it clear that they want her as a submissive. But the self wants to explore different positions. A number of sexäventyr follow, but also a couple of abuse. After Jacob, she appears at the emergency clinic for raped. Although maybe not a rape has been committed, Jacob crossed a line that was not mutual. Still falls Helena in him. The antidepressant medicindosen is raised.”
“On the other hand, it happens that also in Helena are so popular in her pleasure that she, too, shortcomings in responsiveness, and committing a sexual assault.”
“the distance here is no Kerstin Thorvall book where the female self living out their sexuality and liberate themselves from the patriarchal norms and makes scandal in the world. Our time is another. It österlundska of the self is a average woman of today-she is sexually liberated in a society where it is hardly taboo to fuck around and switch partners, not even for women.”
“Helena is about to orient themselves in a context where sex and relationships are freed from the marriage, monogamins, familjebildningens and the female chastity straitjacket.”
“she Wants to have an open relationship with the focus on the sex or she wants to have the tvåsamma relationship security? When she initiates a sexual relationship with Luke, who live in an open relationship with his wife, brought things to a head. Helena falls in love with Luke and wants to feel the primary.”
“Even if Has not write from an explicit feminist perspective, she puts your finger on the knepigheter that surrounds female sexuality. In minnespartier looks back on the events that shaped her life. The first assault committed by a grandfather who put her hand over her ten-year bloated shirt and hands were all over her breasts. Trauma is stored, and the body remembers.”
“Later in life: how she sucks the juice out of their boyfriends by their sexual hunger. She sees herself as a monstrous spindelhona that, when the males will come into her network chaps them up. Is it just the sexdejtande men, for which she is not flickvänsmaterial, which can take the whole of her horniness and drama?”
“n”My vulnerable body” is such a self-revealing book that also provokes. Several times I get the impulse to lecture the self: Depression will ease if you engage yourself in something outside of your narcissism and your desire! The self has no loyalties outside of himself.”
“your Friends have the function of a sounding board with which she ventilate his anxiety. To the beggars on the subway, she gives nothing – she is so excited.”
“But the self has the art. She scroll a lot in art books. Looking at the paintings and photographs of female artists that examines the vulnerability and självporträttet. Interpret everything identifikatoriskt.”
“Helena Österlund is testing me as a reader: here I am in all my humanness and vulnerability”
“Helena is committed eventually in a shelter for the kitties that go bad. It gives her a meaning and a way to understand himself and the world, through other creatures. Towards the end adopts the she cat Torleif – a timid cat shows claws, but whose trust she slowly wins. Even if all the question marks and sorgsenheten is left, feels the suicide is not relevant: Torleif need her!”
“non same way as Helena in the novel tests of their partners in whether they can take her, or think she is too scary and sticky, I feel that the author Has is testing me as a reader: here I am in all my humanness and vulnerability – you can take my naked self-portrait, or will you turn away your eyes, to do violence to me?”
“I’m affected by this human fate, but, above all, Has to write.”
“She captures my interest with the skillful stylistic and thematic twists and turns. Even if large parts of the book consists of diary entries, letters, and recorded conversations with the psychologist, so it is a writer with big literary and dramaturgical awareness, talent and working capacity of the holding pen.”
“My vulnerable body should be nominated to the August prize.”
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