I'm learning Swedish (for fun). What are some cool books I can look forward to reading?All I know about is "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" series. Apparently, they write a lot of detective/crime/mystery novels.
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>>24721062Worthless language to learn as everyone speaks english. The crime novels are sloppa and are available as translations. Beloved literature you could get started on includes a lot of children’s lit. Astrid Lindgren is famous for Pippi Longstockings but wrote much better stories like Mio, min Mio and Bröderna Lejonhjärta which deal with darker themes as well. Despite Moomin being associated with Finland Tove Jansson wrote in swedish. Elsa Beskow is an author for very small children you should be able to tackle early, she illustrated the books and it’s a strange nordic mythology (pic related). Once you gain proficiency you encounter authors like Selma Lagerlöf and August Strindberg which are part of the swedish canon. Pär Lagerkvist is another very successful author who wrote books like Barabbas (adapted in a Hollywood production), won the Nobel. Kallocain by Karin Boye is a kind of Brave New World/1984 dystopia that’s pretty well known. There’s a lot of primary poets of interest too. Dan Andersson, Gustaf Fröding. It’s pretty stark stuff about nature, loneliness and death.
>>24721111>Despite Moomin being associated with Finland Tove Jansson wrote in swedishI didn't know this. So do finnish people read it in translation or what?
>>24721115If they only speak finnish. The thing is a sizable chunk of Finland speaks swedish because they used to be part of Sweden and we are so inherently superior the colonization of 200 years ago persists to this day. Their anti immigrant party has de-swedification on the agenda because they’re seething at having to be a dual-language country.
>>24721111Good effortposting
>>24721118Illustrated situation:
pippi långstrump
>>24721062>I'm learning Swedish (for fun).Reference French Post-structuralism if you are being held against your will.
>>24721729Lol, I just think it's neat. I have no practical use for it and I don't plan on moving there.
>>24721125good thing nuswedes prefer speaking english
>>24721742GOOD GOD CALL FELIX AND GILLES NOW.HE IS IN A SWEDISH SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC RAPE DUNGEON OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MEANING WITHIN VALUE FORM SOCIETY.
>>24721062Let The Right One In is decent slop.
>tfw mum is swedish>half the books in my house are in swedish>can barely read a single word of it>it's all slop anyway
>>24721912have you asked her? my dads wife had quite the collection of slop, too, but as it turned out she was aware of all that and had mentally sorted away some otherwise inconspicious but actually quality books that she asked me to lend when the conversation turned to their books and their reading one time. might be something neat in there, and, even if not, hey, freely given and low-effort insight into your moms mind and feelings. though that might not be desirable, depending. desu the swedes are such an unliterary people that the public makes no distinction between slop and not-slop, so everything you find seems like a diamond in the rough that you chance over or have recommended to you. it's sweet.
>>24721062go to IKEA, sit on a display couch and read the books they leave there.
Henrik Ibsen is Norwegian but it's the same language just spelled differently for purely political reasons
>>24721062Lagerkvist (Dvärgen, Barabbas)I don't read them myself but crime/cop novels are pretty huge in scandinavia in general.
Atlantica by Olav Rudbeck (5 vols.) Upsalla. 1689.
BERRIES AND CREAM BERRIES AND CREAMIM A LITTLE BOY WHO LIKES BERRIES AND CREAM
>>247237235 vols.? pics or it didn't happen
Fredrik Backman is the best Swedish writer out there rn. His most famous book is "A Man Called Ove" which that gay Tom Hanks movie "A Man Called Otto" is based on. I recommend "Anxious People" because it's super duper good. Also, Backman's blog is very worth reading too.
>>24723746really? haven't read his stuff despite how hard it's shilled because it seemed like pretty cheap and uninteresting comedy
>>24723752no way anon, Backman has such beautiful commentary on the state of modernity. very grounded and refreshing. laugh and shed a tear, type shit straight up.
>>24721111> everyone speaks englishThis is true for all first-world countries. "get to talk to locals" is an overrated and outdated reason for learning a language.
>>24723755hm, ok. don't know what the last bit means. although I didn't care for the Ove film at all I'll probably download something wednesday and check him out
aniara, specifically this translationhttps://archive.org/details/aniara/page/n114/mode/1up
>>24723763> true for all first-world countriesYes but to varying degrees. Autistic nords are very fluent. I actually visited Germany and they are so bad even people in public facing roles like bus drivers could barely understand and communicate in english. I think the dubbing tradition cripples some countries (or saves their distinctive language depending on how you see it). Original language movies and tv with subtitles helps learning a lot. And then exposure to english with high internet use and so on.
>>24721742Pretty sure the implication here is “you’ll take it up the ass” ie get raped not “get some ass”.
