Alex Schulman demonstrates his ability to write genres other than autobiography, and once more, the traumas are passed down.
The main protagonists in Swedish author Alex Schulman’s works are an alcoholic mother, two young brothers, and a famous writer with a character disorder. The author’s personal family background has served as the primary inspiration for the publications.
Malman laughed Schulman continues to write about challenging family issues in his most recent book, but he no longer uses autofictional techniques. He obviously wants to demonstrate his ability to create pure fiction as well.
The narrator of Schulman’s Burn these Letters, Alex, even goes so far as to assert that the author Sven Stolpen’s bad temper and outright wrath would have been directly passed on to the grandson. That just doesn’t seem like a very good reason.
When Ore Station family arrangements suggest that a kid abandoned by his mother or who will spend his entire life apart from both parents, it is easy to trust them. And say it again in some way.
In the book, a father and his daughter Harriet make their way to a tiny town’s railway station. Later, Harriet and Oskar make their way there. They will eventually have their daughter as an adult. He was also abandoned too soon.
Every voyage has been preceded by a fatal event. Everyone in Malma will soon learn the message that is concealed in the urn.
At the station, a poor photo of Harriet and her father is taken. Oskar is perplexed when Harriet shows him the document. What, specifically, was Harriet’s bond with her beloved father? If the father doesn’t even give his unhappy daughter a hug in the photo, is that just idealism?
Harriet recently learned that the parents split the two daughters equally between them at the time of their separation. Both did not want Harriet.
Much later, Oskar, her husband, says, “Childhood is an unfathomable construction, like a modern work of art. Incomprehensible and meaningless. I’d like to kick the whole stuff to pieces.”
Oskar and Harriet have been together for a very long time, but Harriet always seemed to be in another place—either in the past or in the fantastical setting of the movie she watched.
As soon as the reader realizes that Harriet cannot afford to pay for her train ticket, despite her assurances to the conductor and the police that she would make it happen, the warning flags become immediately apparent. Oskar pays the fine after believing.
One of the intricacies of a novel is how truthfully it depicts childhood rejections and experiences. Conclusions must be made by the reader, though. He frequently has more knowledge than other individuals do. Their motivations are yet unknown.
What curiosity brings folks to a tiny town station? is an example of how Schulman drags out the narrative and stretches the plot. This highlights the novel’s complex organizational structure. In his personal writings, Schulman demonstrated such ability.
This time around, there is also opposition to overly simple explanations.
According to Harriet, everything can and should be explained in terms of how a person’s childhood experiences shaped who they are today. On the other side, Oskar envies Harriet’s acceptance of such clichés. If so, you have nothing to apologize for.
does not believe, however, that childhood traumas have a flat meaning, not even in the universe of this book, where they occasionally explain too much.
Malman chuckled while traveling back in time. Because the discovery at the conclusion, which establishes its structure, may not be so crucial, it almost falls apart under the weight of its own wit.
What occurs before that is what matters. Why are adults unable to solve problems so that children are not harmed?
There are ultimately no conclusive explanations. There are a number of ways to look at Harriet’s relationship with her father, and it is not wholly negative.
Because of this, the book makes you uneasy. While the narration is unusually vivid, it feels like it was too carefully produced. Furthermore, Schulman develops and presents his characters in a way that the reader must make the ultimate judgments. Malman laughed is a superb piece in that regard.
Revision 9.12 13:46: The wrong name in the intro and title has been fixed.