DN Culture summarizes week 15: The inbred literature

This week’s debate: Inbreeding Literature

Is the literary criticism inbred? It wondered the newspaper Quarter in a text by the bibliometrics Lars Kullman. Really an interesting question! The literature scene is small and there are many friendly and professional relationships between critics, writers and publishing workers. Was it now we would finally get the full survey of who sleeps in whose hotel room at The Frankfurt Fair?

In his review, Kullman focuses on the phenomenon of « guest review », ie when the author himself is linked to a newspaper and an outside critic is borrowed. Kullman states that 80 percent of the guest reviews are positive according to the sentiment analysis he did. Oh, that sounds a lot! Is that a lot? Nobody knows, for any comparison figure about ordinary non -guest reviews, unfortunately, there is no.

But the reviewers And the authors are at least … Yes, what are they? Friends? Competitors? A criticism Human Centipede? Something are they, it is clear, for Kullman has made a graphic presentation of them in the form of a mindmap. 144 people are represented by balls that are linked by « incoming and outgoing reviews ». From this survey, the « network », you can read very little information in addition to Göran Greider, Fredrik Sjöberg, Annina Rabe and Petter Lindgren has the biggest balls.

Unfortunately, we do not get any correct answer to how inbred the cultural pages are. After studying the coteric map for a while, you mostly suffer … happy surprise. Imagine that there are even so many literary critics in little Sweden! And there has also been no further debate after the publication, although Kristin McMillen took the opportunity To accuse DN’s booklist for « corruption » in etc. Jonas Thente hit back in DN: He is « completely indefinite » as a bookstore manager.

And one can still wonder who should really write all these guest reviews and vote for the book lists if it is not one of the 144. AI? Lars Kullman? A fierce stream of even spotless literary criticism? May they never have set foot in Frankfurt.

Word of the Week: Fake Miss

Producer Rasmus Gozzi, who is behind Miss Snusk’s songs, has replaced the artist behind the mask. This has led several organizers to cancel upcoming concerts. The summer festival Åseda Truckmeet states for SR that you do not want any « fake girls ».

This week’s quotation:

« It is the highest league, it corresponds to the World Cup »

Director Tarik Saleh has the chance to receive the prestigious Gold Palm prize at this year’s film festival in Cannes. His new film is called « Eagles of the Republic » and has Fares Fares in the lead role.

This week’s tops

Best right now according to DN’s film, literature, music and television critics.

Film. « Bird »

Faithful magical realism from the forgotten England in this warm and wild upbringing. You can find the entire movie list here.

Book. Hanna Johansson, « Body Double »

Enigmatic, thriller -like novel that artificially plants uncertainty in the reader. You can find the entire book list here.

Music. Greentea Peng, « Tell them It’s Sunny »

Seeker Aisha Wells blends classic soul with astrology flour and reggae. You can find the entire album list here.

Flowed. « Your Friends & Neighbors »

Social satire about hedge fund manager in free fall, which begins to burglary with their well -off neighbors. Apple TV+. The entire streaming list can be found here.

The disturbance is:

Here it is free to whine about the really small and insignificant irritation in the culture. Every week DN’s readers contribute their own notifications to the disturbance. You can reach us at [email protected]

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Disturb me on the fact that when someone reads a book in a movie or TV series, they always read in the beginning or in the middle of the book. Why do they never read at the end of the book?
With kind greetings, Jörgen Dehlin

Same horses

Dear disturbance calls, which is insanely annoying in the series « Vikings » is that the same bunch of horses return throughout the series! The horses are still at the Vikings, than at the British! Most likely, only the horse enthusiasts listed the fad. When they make such a costly series, they could have invested in a few more horses, they probably don’t even get a salary for the effort.
Mvh Marit Carselind

Sick very sick

In sports contexts (and others) it is often « sick »! Sickly well played, we had a sick flow, he played an insanely good half, and so on. How has it become so sick?
Roffe

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