"Books on Argentina" by the Finnish Swede Christer Kihlman as a new type of socially committed novel?
2007
Abstract
„Books on Argentina“ (Alla mina söner, 1980; Livsdrömmen rena, 1982) written by the Finland-Swedish author Christer Kihlman, were hitherto interpreted as lacking any socially committed dimension (see e. g. Seppo Toivianinen and his essay collection Christer Kihlman ja hänen maailmansa).
This article seeks deeper roots of this approach in the text of Kihlman's novel written in 1980 and questions it: it finds and illustrates the existence of the socially committed line even in this part of the author's work.