{"id":285232,"date":"2026-06-23T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/285232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:31:16","slug":"sven-anders-johansson-det-markligaste-med-szalays-succeroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/285232\/","title":{"rendered":"Sven Anders Johansson:: Det m\u00e4rkligaste med Szalays succ\u00e9roman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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M\u00e4ngden likheter mellan David Szalays \u201dK\u00f6tt\u201d och William Thackerays 1800-talsroman \u201dThe luck of Barry Lyndon\u201d gr\u00e4nsar till plagiat. Oavsett hur medvetet detta sl\u00e4ktskap \u00e4r, avsl\u00f6jar det en intressant aspekt av v\u00e5r tidsanda.<\/p>\n

\"under-strecket\" <\/p>\n

Detta \u00e4r en understreckare, en f\u00f6rdjupande ess\u00e4, dagligen i SvD sedan 1918. \u00c5sikter som uttrycks \u00e4r skribentens egna.<\/p>\n

V\u00e5rens mest omdebatterade bok blev n\u00e5got ov\u00e4ntat David Szalays Bookerprisvinnare \u201dK\u00f6tt\u201d (recenserad i SvD 27\/4<\/a>). Eller ocks\u00e5 var det inte alls ov\u00e4ntat. F\u00f6r \u00e4r inte Szalays tyste manlige hj\u00e4lte som skapad f\u00f6r ett bokcirkelsamtal om manligt och kvinnligt, k\u00e4rlek och makt, k\u00e4nslor och spr\u00e5k? Kultursidorna gick i alla fall all in.<\/p>\n

N\u00e4r jag l\u00e4ste boken f\u00f6r ett halv\u00e5r sedan slogs jag av att det var n\u00e5got gammalmodigt sedel\u00e4rande, n\u00e4stan allegoriskt, \u00f6ver historien. I centrum st\u00e5r Istv\u00e1n, som f\u00f6ds under enkla omst\u00e4ndigheter i Ungern. Tillf\u00e4lligheter f\u00f6r honom via Irakkriget till London, d\u00e4r han blir chauff\u00f6r \u00e5t en miljard\u00e4r, vars plats han snart intar. Han lever gott ett tag, innan lyckan v\u00e4nder, och han tvingas tillbaka till Ungern, till samma enkla omst\u00e4ndigheter som han kom ifr\u00e5n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M\u00e4ngden likheter mellan David Szalays \u201dK\u00f6tt\u201d och William Thackerays 1800-talsroman \u201dThe luck of Barry Lyndon\u201d gr\u00e4nsar till plagiat.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[67],"tags":[25775,104,1082,5046,34,25776,21491,31,33,32,30,105],"class_list":["post-285232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-underhallning","tag-david-szalay","tag-entertainment","tag-litteratur","tag-romaner","tag-se","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-svd-berattande-kultur","tag-svenska","tag-sverige","tag-sweden","tag-swedish","tag-underhallning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@se\/116800853551947195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}