”Den döda materien lever precis som vi” : En läsning av tingen i Torgny Lindgrens Klingsor (2014)

Sammanfattning: This essay examines the objects in Torgny Lindgren´s novel Klingsor (2014). This is done via new materialist philosophy and literary studies focusing on objects, a perspective through which Lindgren´s works have not yet been studied. The essay analyses several of the objects in the text, such as a particular glass, items in a kitchen, paintings, pesticides, etcetera, to understand if and how they break the norms of literary narrative and description. The result shows that the novel portrays objects in ways that bypass the normative ways of describing them; the objects influence the characters (as opposed to the other way around), they exhibit their own temporalities and they do not function merely as symbols or mirrors of human experience.