The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: MÃÆ'¤n som hatar kvinnor Men Hated Women ) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954-2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. This is the first book of the series Millennium .
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Larsson spoke of an incident he said happened when he was 15 years old: he stood up when three gangs raped an acquaintance named Lisbeth. A few days later, tortured with guilt for not doing anything to help him, he begs for his forgiveness - which he refused to give. The incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward and partly inspired him to create a character named Lisbeth who was also a rape victim. The authenticity of this story has been questioned since Larsson's death, after a colleague from Expo magazine reported to Rolling Stone that Larsson had told him that he had heard the story directly and recounted it as his own. The killing of Catrine da Costa was also an inspiration when he wrote the book.
With the exception of fictional Hedestad, this novel takes place in real Swedish cities. The Millennium Magazine in books has characteristics similar to Larsson's magazine, Expo , such as socio-political trends and financial difficulties.
Both Larsson's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson and English translator Steven T. Murray say that Christopher MacLehose (who works for British publisher Quercus) "does not need to be reproduced" of English translations; thus, Murray asks him to be credited with a pseudonym "Reg Keeland". The release of English also changed the title, although Larsson specifically refused to allow Swedish publishers to do so, and the tattoo size of Salander's dragon; from a large piece covering his entire back, with a small shoulder tattoo.
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Plot
In December 2002, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of the Swedish political magazine Millennium, lost a defamation case involving allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik WennerstrÃÆ'¶m. Blomkvist was sentenced to three months (suspended) in prison, and ordered to pay compensation and a large fee. Soon after, he was invited to meet Henrik Vanger, retired CEO of Vanger Corporation, unaware that Vanger had reviewed his personal and professional history; Blomkvist's investigation has been done by Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but highly problematic computer researcher and hacker.
Vanger promised to give Blomkvist evidence against WennerstrÃÆ'¶m in exchange for discovering what happened to Vanger's grandfather, Harriet, who disappeared in 1966; Vanger believes he was killed by a family member. Harriet disappeared during a family gathering at the Vanger estate on Hedeby Island, when the island was temporarily cut off from the mainland by a traffic accident on the bridge.
Blomkvist moved to the island and began researching the Vanger family history and the disappearance of Harriet. As he did so, he met most of the remaining Vanger clans, including Harriet Martin's brother, the company's current CEO; Isabella, Martin and mother Harriet; and Cecilia, a principal who is a younger aunt and friend of Harriet, though Cecilia's sister, Anita is closer in both age and friendship to the missing girl.
Salander was legally ruled incompetent as a child and was under the care of a legal guardian, Holger Palmgren. When Palmgren suffered a stroke, he was replaced by Nils Bjurman, who used his position to extort sex drive from him and eventually raped him. After using a hidden camera to record his attacks, Salander takes revenge, tortures Bjurman and threatens to destroy him unless he gives him complete control over his life and finances. He then uses a tattoo machine to brand him as a rapist.
Despite all the opposing expectations, Blomkvist identifies new evidence in the disappearance of Harriet. One clue was a pair of photos, detailing Harriet's sudden discomfort when he saw a young man wearing a prep school blazer. Another lies in the journal Harriet, which contains a set of five names and a five digit number is believed to be an old phone number; however, the Blomkvist princess, Pernilla, who passes the road to the tabernacle of the Bible, identifies them as part of the Book of Leviticus. They describe the rules of women's treatment and punishment, and Blomkvist connects one with the terrible murder of a Vanger corporate secretary in 1949. Blomkvist realizes that he may be on a serial killer path, and the resulting scope of research. making Blomkvist ask the research assistant. Vanger's lawyer suggested Salander.
When he saw the report he prepared for Vanger, Blomkvist realized that Salander had hacked into his computer. She confronts him and asks him to help him with the investigation, which he approves. The two eventually became lovers, but Salander kept Blomkvist at an emotional distance. Their suspicions increased when local cats were left to pieces in the Blomkvist foyer, and Blomkvist was fired from afar while jogging in the afternoon.
Blomkvist and Salander reveal four of the remaining killings described in the journal Harriet, as well as some that fit the profile: women who are sexually abused and subsequently murdered in accordance with the Levitic verse. In addition, most of the murders occurred at the location where Vanger Corporation did business.
They settled in Gottfried Vanger, Martin and Harriet's father, as possible candidates but were stymied when he was found to have preceded the last victim. While Salander continues to hunt through the archives of Vanger Corporation, Blomkvist manages to identify the antagonist that Harriet fears: his brother Martin. Martin takes the Blomkvist prisoner, revealing that Gottfried "started" him into rape rituals and killing women before his own death, and implies that Gottfried is sexually abused both him and Harriet. Martin claimed to kill dozens of women but denied killing his sister. He decides to get rid of himself from Blomkvist once and for all, but Salander - who has found the connection independently - arrives and hits Martin over his head with the golf club before Blomkvist cuts out of his grip. Martin escaped by car, chased by Salander on his motorcycle, and chose his own fate intentionally colliding with an oncoming truck.
Believing that Cecilia Anita's sister, now living in London, was the only relative who might know something about Harriet's fate, Blomkvist and Salander pursue that leadership and learn that Harriet is alive and living under the name Anita in Australia. When Blomkvist flies there to meet him, Harriet tells him the truth about his departure: his father and brother have repeatedly raped him, until he kills his father in self-defense. Martin was sent to prep school, but he returned the day he left. Harriet realizes that he needs to escape, so he finds a place to hide during a traffic accident mess, and Anita smuggles him to the mainland the next day.
Blomkvist persuaded him to return to Sweden, where he reunited with Henrik. Blomkvist then accompanied Salander to his mother's funeral.
Blomkvist learned that the evidence against WennerstrÃÆ'¶m that Vanger promised him was useless, well beyond his limits legislation. However, Salander had hacked into WennerstrÃÆ'¶m's computer and found that his crime goes far beyond what the Blomkvist documented. Using evidence, Blomkvist scored the exposé and © the book that destroyed the WennerstrÃÆ'¶m and threw the Millennium to the national level. Salander, using his hacking skills, managed to steal about 2.6 billion kr (about $ 260 million USD) from WennerstrÃÆ'¶m's secret bank account.
Blomkvist and Salander spent Christmas together at his vacation retreat. A few days later, he goes to Blomkvist's house, intending to declare his love for him. After expecting Blomkvist to be with his daughter, he retreats when he sees him with his old lover and business partner Erika Berger, injured because he lied to her.
As an additional note, Salander continued to monitor WennerstrÃÆ'¶m and after six months, anonymously notified a lawyer in Miami about his whereabouts. Four days later the body of WennerstrÃÆ'¶m was found in Marbella, Spain, shot three times in the head.
Character
- Mikael BlomkvistÃ, - journalist, publisher, and owner of part of the monthly political magazine Millennium
- Lisbeth SalanderÃ, - freelance surveillance and research specializing in investigating people on behalf of Milton Security
- Henrik Vanger - retired industrialist and former CEO of Vanger Corporation
- Harriet VangerÃ, - Henrik's grandniece
- Martin Vanger - Harriet's brother and CEO of Vanger Corporation
- Gottfried Vanger - Martin and his father who died Harriet
- Isabella VangerÃ, - Gottfried Vanger's widow, and Martin and Harriet's mother
- Cecilia VangerÃ, â € "the daughter of Harald Vanger and one of Henrik's nephews
- Anita Vanger - the daughter of Harald Vanger and one of Henrik's nephews, a resident of London
- Birger Vanger - son of Harald Vanger and one of Henrik's nieces
- Harald Vanger - brother of Henrik and member of the Swedish Nazi Party
- Hans-Erik WennerstrÃÆ'¶mÃ, - financiers of corrupt billionaires
- Robert Lindberg - source of banker and Blomkvist for defamation stories
- William BorgÃ, - Blomkvist enemy
- Monica AbrahamssonÃ, - Blomkvist's wife he married in 1986 and divorced in 1991
- Pernilla AbrahamssonÃ, - their daughter who was born in 1986
- Holger PalmgrenÃ, - Salander's lawyer and lawyer who was disabled for a stroke
- Nils BjurmanÃ, - guardian and lawyer of Salander's law after Palmgren
- Erika BergerÃ, - monthly editor-in-chief/majority owner of Millennium monthly magazine and long-time Blomkvist lover
- Dirch FrodeÃ, - a former lawyer for Vanger Corporation, is now a lawyer with one client: Henrik Vanger
- Dragan ArmanskyÃ, - CEO and COO of Milton Security
- Outbreak - computer hackers/geniuses
- Christer MalmÃ, - the director, art designer, and partial owner of the Millennium
- Janne DahlmanÃ, - managing editor Millennium
- Gustaf Morell - Retired Detective Supervisor
- Anna NygrenÃ, - Housekeeper Henrik Vanger
- Gunnar Nilsson - Henrik's Board
Main themes
Larsson made several literary references for pioneers and classic genre comments on contemporary Swedish society. The reviewer Robert Dessaix writes, "His favorite targets are the violence against women, the inability and cowardice of investigative journalists, the moral bankruptcy of large capital and the malevolent stray of Nazism... in Swedish society." Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm and Anna Westerstahl Stenport write that the novel "reflects - implicitly and explicitly - the gap between rhetoric and practice in Swedish policy and public discourse about the complex relationship between a welfare state savings, a neo-liberal corporate and economic practice, and politicized political construction. The novel, according to one article, supports the pragmatic acceptance of a delocalized, inhuman and misogynist neoliberal world order. "
Alm and Stenport add, "What most international (and Swedish) reviewers forget is that the financial and moral corruption at the heart of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is so deep as to indict most of the attributes associated with contemporary. Sweden as a democratic and gender-based country This novel is far from what American critic Maureen Corrigan has described as "unremarkable feminist social commentary..." (Corrigan's article is "Super-Smart Noir With Feminist Touch", National Public ) Radio, September 23, 2008.)
Larsson goes further into the debate about how criminals are responsible for their crimes, and how much is blamed on education or society. For example, Salander has a strong will and assumes that others too. She is depicted to have experienced any kind of abuse in her young life, including unnecessary commitments to a psychiatric clinic and subsequent cases of sexual assaults suffered at the hands of court-appointed guardians.
Maria de Lurdes Sampaio, in the journal Cross Cultural Communication, asserts that, "Blomkvist, a modernusus, takes us to the labyrinth of the global world, while the series protagonist Lisbeth Salander, modeled on the Amazon, is an example of women's empowerment in criminal fiction by playing the role of a 'tough' detective, while also personifying the popular role of the victim, the outcast and the avenger. "In this context he discusses" Dialogue with the Greek tragedy... Salander's struggle with a powerful father figure. " Sampaio also argues,
Later, like many other writers and filmmakers, Larsson plays with the universal appeal of people to the mysteries of religion, riddles and hermeneutics, while highlighting the way the Bible and other religious books inspire scary serial criminals throughout history. There are many passages dedicated to the Hebrew Bible, to the Apocrypha and to the controversy surrounding different branches of the Church. Transcription of Latin expressions (eg, "sola fide" or "clarity scripturae") along with parts of the Bible, which provide clues to uncover secular mysteries, proves that Larsson is well acquainted with Umberto Eco's best works and with similar plots. There are many marks of both the Rose Names and Foucault's Pendulum in the series the Millennium , and in the sense that some of these works are contained in the first novel.
Mystery of locked space
Larsson writes in the novel, in Chapter 12, "This is actually an interesting case.What I believe to be known as the mystery of locked space, on an island.And nothing in the investigation seems to follow the normal logic.Each question remains unanswered, every clue leads to deadlock. "He provided a family tree that described the five generations of the Vanger family.
Reception and rewards
The novel was released for major acclaim in Sweden and later, on publications in many other European countries. In the original, he won a Glass Key Award in Sweden in 2006 for the best criminal novel of the year. It also won the 2008 Boeke Prize, and at the 2009 British Galaxy Book Awards for Thriller of the Year Direct Book of Thriller, and the prestigious Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
Larsson was awarded the ITV3 Thriller Crime Award for International Writers of the Year 2008.
Girls with Dragon Tattoos receive mixed criticism from American critics. It debuted at number four on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Alex Berenson writes in The New York Times, "This novel offers a really bad view of human nature"; while it "opens with an interesting mystery" and "the middle part of Girl is a treat, the rest of the novel does not quite measure.The original Swedish title of the book is Men Who Hate Women
On the other hand, Dr. Abdallah Daar, writing for Nature, said, "The events that surrounded the nephew's move were carefully and ingeniously put together, with many scientific insights." The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote, "This is a masterpiece, elaborately plotted, dark humor, rich with irony, strange but unbelievable characters and literary excitement that only masters of the genre and its history can bring to death."
On June 3, 2011, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has sold over 3.4 million copies in hardcover or ebook format, and 15 million copies, in the United States.
Essay book
Wiley publishes a collection of essays, edited by Eric Bronson, entitled Girls with Tattoos and Dragon Philosophy (2011).
Movie adaptation
- Swedish film production company Yellow Bird made a film version of the first three books Millennium , the third film released in 2009, starting with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev. The protagonists are played by Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.
- The Hollywood adaptation film of this book, directed by David Fincher, was released in December 2011. The main characters are portrayed by Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
- Millennium , a Swedish six-section television miniseries based on a film adaptation of the Stieg Larsson series of the same name, aired on SVT1 from March 20, 2010 to April 24, 2010. The series is produced by Yellow Bird in collaboration with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film, Film i VÃÆ'¤stm, and ZDF Enterprises.
- Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition is the title of TV miniseries releases on DVD, Blu-ray, and video on demand in the US. This miniseries version consists of nine hours of story content, including more than two hours of additional footage not seen in theatrical versions of original Swedish films. The four-disc set includes: GADIS WITH DRAGON TATTOO - EXPIRED EDITION , GIRLS PLAYING WITH FIRE - EXTENDED EDITION , GADIS WHICH DESTROYED HORNET'S NEST - EDITION EXTENDED , and BONUS DISC includes two hours of special features.
Parody
- Dragon with a Girl Tattoo (2010) - Adam Roberts
- Girl with Sturgeon Tattoo () - Lars Arffssen
- Improved Umbraut Girl (2010) - Nora Ephron
- Girls with Sandwich Tattoos: A hideous parody (2013) - Dragon Stiegsson
- Coach with Dragon Tattoo (2016) - Patrick Ness
References
Publication details
- August 2005, Sweden: Norstedts (ISBNÃ, 978-91-1-301408-1), paperback (has 1st edition)
- January 10, 2008, UK: MacLehose Press/Quercus Imprint (ISBNÃ, 978-1-84724-253-2), hardback (translated as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Reg Keeland) li>
- September 16, 2008, USA: Alfred A. Knopf (ISBNÃ, 978-0-307-26975-1), hardback
See also
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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