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| Bart Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 7151 days ago 155 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish | Message 9 of 15 21 January 2006 at 5:26am | IP Logged |
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yeah that's Dutch :)
(Jan Decleir speaks Dutch by the way, he's just Belgian, not Dutch) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 7027 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 10 of 15 14 October 2007 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
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Interesting that you mention those film versions with the "international" actors. I have actually been looking for them, but unable to find them. I have thaken the movie versions of the Sjöwall/Wahlöö books as a topic for my diploma exam (in theatre- film- and media studies) - though I have decided to concentrate on the movies with Gösta Ekman playing Martin Beck.
BTW - having read most of the novels now, and also some of today's Swedish detective novels (Henning Mankell etc.) I have been wondering about the elements of social criticism that are very prominent in those stories and are actually quite characteristic for Scandinavian detective novels. What I would be interested in how much this aspects relate to real social problems. I would really like to talk about that with some of the Swedish members on this forum, you can also PN me (gärna på svenska) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strossel Triglot Groupie Joined 6474 days ago 47 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, French Studies: Icelandic, Hungarian | Message 11 of 15 18 October 2007 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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You may like to check out Liza Marklund books: they are murder mysteries, with social commentary. (Off the top of my head - dealing with women/workplace issues, immigration, class divide... etc)
They aren't Shakespeare, but they do have a strong narrative which I find helpful when reading in a second language. Several of her novels have been made into films, so you can read and watch to make sure you've understood! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Biene Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6213 days ago 71 posts - 73 votes 2 sounds Speaks: German*, English Studies: Dutch, Japanese | Message 12 of 15 13 April 2009 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
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I'm looking for a Swedish book as a present for a friend. Since that person is not interested in detective stories or murder mysteries and such, and since I don't know any Swedish, I'm having a hard time to find an appopriate book.
I'm looking for something that is more in the direction of kabarett/comedy (can also be dark comedy), and stumbled over "Hasse Alfredson". Unfortunately there is not much information in Wikipedia (neither German, nor English, nor Swedish) that tells much about the individual books and what they are about, which he has published up to now. Can anyone possibly recommend a book of this author (or another author), that would be adequate for an adult? thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6263 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 13 of 15 21 May 2009 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
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It seems to me that one place you can get Swedish books is IKEA. Because bookshelf and furniture displays in IKEA actually feature Swedish books, or at least they did in the branch I went to.
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5829 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 14 of 15 21 May 2009 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
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Biene- There is a long section about Hasse Alfredson on Swedish Wikipedia.
To summarise it; he's a member of the Swedish 'cultural elite' you could say, I guess. Back in the days of state-TV only, he was on TV programmes which were watched by the whole population, therefore everybody over 30 knows who he is. He's got to be pretty old by now. He's had all sorts of appointments as cultural manager for this or that. But originally he is a comedy actor. He had a comedy show with a fellow called Tage Danielsson - this show was very appreciated by the older generation. It ran for at least 10 years, probably longer. Here is a clip of their show (in very easy Swedish, lol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvL3xpDOb4 I have no idea why this depressing song is comedy! Additionally he's practically been in every other Swedish film made during the 70s and 80s. Edited by cordelia0507 on 21 May 2009 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 7027 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 15 of 15 21 May 2009 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for posting this. I had not heard of this show before, and also did not know the song, so it was quite interesting for me to see. And yes, this cannot be exacltly considered comedy, but may some kind of gallows humour. And then the courious thing about it is that today it is as true as maybe in 1971 ... om man tänker på det över ett glas öl ...
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