{"id":256126,"date":"2007-09-20T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/20\/metafiction-from-sweden\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:24","slug":"metafiction-from-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/20\/metafiction-from-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Metafiction from Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;m pretty knowledgeable about international authors, but I have to admit that I&#8217;ve never heard of Swedish author Klas \u00d6stergren, whose latest novel is reviewed in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/63083\"><i>New York Sun<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Klas \u00d6stergren is hailed as one of Sweden&#8217;s most important living writers. Swedish critics have compared his writing to that of Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami, whose influences are clearly felt in Mr. \u00d6stergren&#8217;s fourth novel, <i>Gentlemen<\/i> (MacAdam\/Cage, 375 pages, $25), an elegantly written work of metafiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The book sounds really interesting&#8212;the story of three artists during the years of 1948 to 1978. Sounds funny, light, and kind of wild, until things take a slightly darker turn.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is not until three-fifths through the novel that the brothers&#8217; ideals collide with reality, and the book, hitherto an episodic, plotless account, is plunged into its most sustained and gripping action. For about 50 pages, <i>Gentlemen<\/i> becomes a political thriller as Leo unravels a dark secret in Sweden&#8217;s history involving the Third Reich. Although he endeavors to bring the story to light, the powers that be stymie him, driving him first to a mental institution, and then to the bottle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;m pretty knowledgeable about international authors, but I have to admit that I&#8217;ve never heard of Swedish author Klas \u00d6stergren, whose latest novel is reviewed in today&#8217;s New York Sun: Klas \u00d6stergren is hailed as one of Sweden&#8217;s most important living writers. Swedish critics have compared his writing to that of Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,836,1646,6436],"class_list":["post-256126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-new-york-sun","tag-review","tag-swedish-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328106,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256126\/revisions\/328106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}