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Loggböckerna #3

De från norr kommande leoparderna

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Affärsmannen bredvid mig på planet beställer vatten till maten.

Vatten, vatten, platt vatten och vatten med bubblor, ska han bada, Evian, Badoit, Perrier.

Jag beställer vitt vin till den så kallade förrätten och rött till den så kallade huvudrätten.

Jag dricker bara några klunkar ur varje vinflaska men eftersom affärsmannen bredvid mig sitter där med allt sitt myckna vatten känner jag mig som en alkoholist.

Som om jag skulle dricka mig redlös på de där små vinflaskorna och slänga mig tvärs över sätet i knäet på den vattendrickande affärsmannen.

Jag skriver i min anteckningsbok:

SLUTA BRY MIG OM VAD FOLK TYCKER

Bodil Malmsten /maj 2009/Bretagne Pays de la Loire

De från norr kommande leoparderna är Bodil Malmstens tredje loggbok, efter Hör bara hur ditt hjärta bultar i mig (2006) och Kom och hälsa på mig om tusen år (2007).

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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Bodil Malmsten

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Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.

The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.

She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa ad gradum (honorary degree) by the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund in 2006.

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July 10, 2020
Den var delvis förvirrande, delvis jäkligt bra och delvis lite tråkig. Det var som vanligt (detta är tredje loggboken som jag läser) kommentarer kring samtiden och till Bodils liv som nu har flyttats från Finistère. Dessutom dör hennes älskade Rover (= bilen).
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August 30, 2025
Dricker varje ord som droppar av silver Malmstens mörka natt. När dagsljuset till slut blir vitt och stickigt är det dags för oss att gå därifrån.
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December 29, 2009
This is the last book that Malmsten has written from Finistère, from where she moved while writing this book, a collection of "logs", as she calls them, i.e. snippets selected by herself as posted on her blog. She writes of her neighbours, of the Evil Internet Operator Orange, of the sea and obsessing a lot. In the best possible way. She is not simple, while taking great care in writing using simple words.

I've often compared Bodil Malmsten with Arthur Rimbaud, and I still believe this comparison to be singularly valid.

She has a very special way of interpreting and exhaling the world around herself, whether it is a seemingly small thing (e.g. the Tape Family, expanding thoughts on words) or seemingly big (e.g. depression, moving, Nicolas Sarkozy's influence on Europe).

The outtakes from her play makes me immediately want to read it.

All in all, a lovely collection of thoughts that does not play into the regular breadth of what being a 60-ish female means. These thoughts alarm and provoke by just being uttered. I really enjoy reading this book, and will most definitely re-read it.
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March 15, 2014
Intressant och roligt hoppar hon mellan irritation över en dålig dammsugare eller ett ofungerande internetabbonnemang till djupa politiska eller filosofiska funderingar. Jag ler hela tiden och tycker Bodil Malmsten är fantastisk!
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