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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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First edition (Swedish)
Author Stieg Larsson
Original championship Män som hatar kvinnor
Translator Reg Keeland, pseudonym of Steven T. Murray
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Series Millennium
Genre Crime, mystery, thriller, Scandinavian noir
Publisher Norstedts Förlag (Swedish)

Publication appointment

 Baronial 2005

Published in English

 January 2008
Media type Impress (paperback, hardback)
ISBN 978-91-1-301408-ane (Swedish)
ISBN 978-1-84724-253-2 (English)
OCLC 186764078
Followed by The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor , lit.'Men Who Hate Women') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). It was published posthumously in 2005, translated into English in 2008, and became an international bestseller.[one]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book of the Millennium series. Originally a trilogy by Larsson, the series was expanded to another 3 books past David Lagercrantz, and every bit of 2021 rights had been sold for Karin Smirnoff to pen three more.

Groundwork [edit]

Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was fifteen: he stood past as three men gang raped an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth. Days later, racked with guilt for having washed nix to help her, he begged her forgiveness—which she refused to grant. The incident, he said, haunted him for years after and in part inspired him to create a character named Lisbeth who was also a rape victim.[2] The veracity of this story has been questioned since Larsson'southward expiry, after a colleague from Expo magazine reported to Rolling Stone that Larsson had told him he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own.[3] The murder of Catrine da Costa was also an inspiration when he wrote the book.[four]

With the exception of the fictional Hedestad,[five] the novel takes place in actual Swedish towns. The magazine Millennium in the books has characteristics similar to that of Larsson's mag, Expo, such every bit its leftist socio-political leanings, its exposés on Swedish Nazism and financial abuse and its financial difficulties.[6]

Both Larsson's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson and English language translator Steven T. Murray have said that Christopher MacLehose (who works for British publisher Quercus) "needlessly prettified" the English translation; equally such, Murray requested he be credited under the pseudonym "Reg Keeland".[7] The English release also inverse the title, fifty-fifty though Larsson specifically refused to allow the Swedish publisher to do so, and the size of Salander's dragon tattoo; from a large piece covering her entire back, to a small shoulder tattoo.[8]

Plot [edit]

Middle-aged announcer Mikael Blomkvist, who publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm, has lost a libel case involving damaging allegations nearly billionaire Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. Facing jail time and professional person disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine'south board of directors, despite strong objections from Erika Berger, Blomkvist's longtime friend, occasional lover, and business organisation partner. At the same fourth dimension, he is offered an unlikely freelance assignment past Henrik Vanger, the elderly former CEO of Vanger Enterprises. Blomkvist accepts the assignment — unaware that Vanger commissioned a comprehensive investigation into Blomkvist's personal and professional person history, carried out past gifted individual investigator Lisbeth Salander.

Blomkvist visits Vanger at his manor on the tiny isle of Hedeby, several hours from Stockholm. The old human draws Blomkvist in by promising non only financial reward for the assignment, just likewise solid evidence that Wennerström is truly the scoundrel Blomkvist suspects him to be. On this basis, Blomkvist agrees to spend a twelvemonth writing the Vanger family history as a encompass for the real assignment: solving the "cold instance" of the disappearance of Vanger's great niece Harriet some 40 years earlier. Vanger expresses his suspicion that Harriet was murdered by a fellow member of the vast Vanger family, many of whom were nowadays in Hedeby on the day of her disappearance. Each year on his birthday Harriet gave Henrik a present of pressed flowers. On his altogether every year since Harriet's murder, Vanger explains, the murderer torments him with a nowadays of pressed flowers.

Blomkvist begins the procedure of analysing the more than xl years worth of information Henrik Vanger has obsessively compiled effectually the circumstances of the day Harriet disappeared. Hedeby is dwelling house to several generations of Vangers, all part owners in Vanger Enterprises. Under the pretext of researching the family unit history, and due to the modest size of the island, Blomkvist presently becomes acquainted with the members of the extended Vanger family who are variously mad, uninterested, concerned, hostile, or aloof.

Blomkvist immerses himself in the instance. Eventually Lisbeth Salander is likewise brought in, now to assist him with research using her skills as a figurer hacker. Ultimately the two observe that Harriet'due south brother Martin, at present CEO of Vanger Industries, has been systematically abusing and killing women for years. Moreover, the behavior was indoctrinated in him by his late male parent Gottfried who sexually driveling Martin and Harriet too. Blomkvist attempts to confront Martin, simply is captured and taken to a torture chamber hidden in Martin's house. He as well reveals that he is not responsible for Harriet'south disappearance and presumed murder. Moments before Martin tin kill Blomkvist, Lisbeth bursts in and attacks, rescuing him. Martin escapes while Lisbeth frees Blomkvist, only to commit suicide past crashing his car into a truck on the highway.

Blomkvist and Lisbeth realize that Harriet was not actually murdered, but ran abroad to escape from her sadistic blood brother. They track her to Australia where she runs a sheep farming visitor. Confronted, she confirms their account of the instance, but also reveals that she was actually responsible for the presumed accidental death of her father. She returns to Sweden where she is happily reunited with Vanger and begins to take a leading office in the newly leaderless family unit visitor.

Vanger's promises of prove regarding Wennerström bear witness to take been mostly a lure for Blomkvist and are not especially substantial. Still, using her investigative skills, Lisbeth breaks into Wennerström'due south computer and discovers that his crimes become beyond even what Blomkvist was bedevilled of libel for press. Using the evidence she found, Blomkvist prints an exposé article and book which destroys Wennerström and catapults him and Millenium to national prominence.

Characters [edit]

  • Mikael Blomkvist – journalist, publisher and part-owner of the monthly political magazine, Millennium
  • Lisbeth Salander – freelance surveillance amanuensis and researcher specializing in investigating people on behalf of Milton Security
  • Erika Berger – editor-in-chief/majority possessor of Millennium and Blomkvist's long-standing lover
  • Henrik Vanger – retired industrialist and former CEO of Vanger Corporation
  • Harriet Vanger – Henrik'due south grandniece who disappeared without trace in 1966
  • Martin Vanger – Harriet'southward brother and CEO of Vanger Corporation
  • Gottfried Vanger – Henrik'south nephew, and Martin and Harriet's deceased begetter
  • Isabella Vanger – Gottfried Vanger'southward widow, and Martin and Harriet'southward mother
  • Cecilia Vanger – daughter of Harald Vanger and i of Henrik's nieces
  • Anita Vanger – girl of Harald Vanger and i of Henrik'southward nieces, currently living in London
  • Birger Vanger – Harald Vanger' son; one of Henrik'due south nephews
  • Harald Vanger – Henrik's elder blood brother, a member of the Swedish Nazi Political party
  • Hans-Erik Wennerström – corrupt billionaire financier
  • Robert Lindberg – a broker, Blomkvist'due south source for the libelous story on Wennerström
  • William Borg – a former journalist and Blomkvist's nemesis
  • Monica Abrahamsson – Blomkvist'due south ex-wife whom he married in 1986 and divorced in 1991
  • Pernilla Abrahamsson – their daughter who was built-in in 1986
  • Greger Beckman – Erika Berger's married man
  • Holger Palmgren – Salander's legal guardian and lawyer who becomes disabled by a stroke
  • Nils Bjurman – Salander's legal guardian and lawyer after Palmgren
  • Dirch Frode – former lawyer for Vanger Corporation, now a lawyer with only one client: Henrik Vanger
  • Dragan Armanskij – CEO and COO of Milton Security, Lisbeth'southward employer
  • Plague – computer hacker/genius
  • Eva – Martin Vanger's girlfriend
  • Christer Malm – director, art designer and part-owner of Millennium
  • Janne Dahlman – managing editor of Millennium
  • Gustaf Morell – retired Detective Superintendent who investigated Harriet's disappearance
  • Anna Nygren – Henrik Vanger'southward housekeeper
  • Gunnar Nilsson – caretaker of Henrik Vanger'south domain in Hedeby

Major themes [edit]

Larsson makes several literary references to the genre'southward archetype forerunners and comments on contemporary Swedish guild.[ix] Reviewer Robert Dessaix writes, "His favourite targets are violence against women, the incompetence and cowardice of investigative journalists, the moral defalcation of big capital and the virulent strain of Nazism yet festering away ... in Swedish gild."[1] Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm and Anna Westerstahl Stenport write that the novel "reflects—implicitly and explicitly—gaps between rhetoric and do in Swedish policy and public discourse about complex relations betwixt welfare land retrenchment, neoliberal corporate and economical practices, and politicised gender structure. The novel, co-ordinate to one article, endorses a businesslike acceptance of a neoliberal world club that is delocalized, dehumanized and misogynistic."[10]

Alm and Stenport add, "What most international (and Swedish) reviewers overlook is that the financial and moral corruptibility at the heart of The Daughter with the Dragon Tattoo is then profound equally to indict most attributes associated with gimmicky Sweden as autonomous and gender-equal. The novel is in fact far from what American critic Maureen Corrigan calls an "unflinching ... commonsense feminist social commentary".[11] [10]

Larsson further enters the debate as to how responsible criminals are for their crimes, and how much is blamed on upbringing or society.[one] For example, Salander has a strong will and assumes that everyone else does, also. She is portrayed as having suffered every kind of abuse in her young life, including an unnecessary commitment to a psychiatric clinic and subsequent instances of sexual assault suffered at the hands of her court-appointed guardian.

Maria de Lurdes Sampaio, in the periodical Cantankerous-Cultural Advice, asserts that, "Blomkvist, a modernistic Theseus, leads us to the labyrinth of the globalized globe, while the series' protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, modeled on the Amazon, is an example of the empowerment of women in crime fiction by playing the function of the 'tough guy' detective, while besides personifying the pop roles of the victim, the outcast and the avenger." In this context, she discusses "Dialogues with Greek tragedy... namely Salander'due south struggles with potent father figures." Sampaio also argues,

Then, like and so many other writers and moviemakers, Larsson plays with people'southward universal fascination for religious mysteries, enigmas and hermeneutics, while highlighting the way the Bible and other religious books have inspired hideous serial criminals throughout history. At that place are many passages dedicated to the Hebrew Bible, to the Apocrypha and to the controversies surrounding different Church's branches. The transcription of Latin expressions (eastward.thou., "sola fide" or "claritas scripturae") together with the biblical passages, which provide the clues to unveil the secular mysteries, proves that Larsson was well acquainted with Umberto Eco'south bestsellers and with similar plots. In that location are many signs of both The Proper name of the Rose and of Foucault's Pendulum in the Millennium series, and in some sense these two works are contained in the starting time novel.[12]

Reception and awards [edit]

The novel was released to swell acclaim in Sweden and later, on its publication in many other European countries. In the original language, information technology won Sweden's Glass Central Accolade in 2006 for best law-breaking novel of the year. It besides won the 2008 Boeke Prize, and in 2009 the Milky way British Volume Awards[13] for Books Direct Criminal offence Thriller of the Year, and the prestigious Anthony Award[xiv] [15] for Best First Novel. The Guardian ranked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #98 in its listing of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.[16]

Larsson was awarded the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year in 2008.[17]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo received mixed reviews from American critics. Information technology debuted at number four on The New York Times All-time Seller list.[10] Alex Berenson wrote in The New York Times, "The novel offers a thoroughly ugly view of human nature"; while information technology "opens with an intriguing mystery" and the "center section of Girl is a care for, the rest of the novel doesn't quite measure up. The volume's original Swedish title was Men Who Hate Women, a label that just about captures the subtlety of the novel's sexual politics."[18] The Los Angeles Times said "the volume takes off, in the fourth chapter: From there, information technology becomes classic parlor crime fiction with many modern twists....The writing is non beautiful, clipped at times (though that could be the translation by Reg Keeland) and with a few too many falsely dramatic endings to sections or capacity. Merely information technology is a compelling, well-woven tale that succeeds in transporting the reader to rural Sweden for a good crime story."[19] Several months later, Matt Selman said the volume "rings false with piles of piece of cake super-victories and far-fetched one-in-a-million clue-findings."[20] Richard Alleva, in the Catholic journal,Commonweal, wrote that the novel is marred by "its inept backstory, banal characterizations, flavorless prose, surfeit of themes (Swedish Nazism, uncaring bureaucracy, corporate malfeasance, abuse of women, etc.), and—worst of all—writer Larsson's penchant for ever telling us exactly what we should be feeling."[21]

On the other mitt, Dr. Abdallah Daar, writing for Nature, said, "The events surrounding the neat-niece'due south disappearance are meticulously and ingeniously pieced together, with plenty of scientific insight."[22] The Pittsburgh Mail service-Gazette wrote, "It'southward a big, intricately plotted, darkly humorous work, rich with ironies, quirky only believable characters and a literary playfulness that only a master of the genre and its history could bring off."[23]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sold more than 30 million copies by 2010.[24] In the United States, it sold more than 3.iv million copies in hardcover or ebook formats, and 15 million total past June 2011.[25]

Volume of essays [edit]

Wiley published a collection of essays, edited by Eric Bronson, titled The Daughter with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy (2011).[26]

Film adaptations [edit]

  • The Swedish film production company Xanthous Bird created picture versions of the starting time 3 Millennium books, all three films released in 2009, first with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev. The protagonists were played by Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.
  • A Hollywood picture show adaptation of the book, directed by David Fincher, was released in Dec 2011. The primary characters were portrayed by Daniel Craig[27] and Rooney Mara.[28]
  • Millennium, a Swedish vi-role tv miniseries based on the flick adaptations of Stieg Larsson's series of the same name, was broadcast on SVT1 from xx March 2010 to 24 April 2010. The series was produced past Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film, Movie i Västm, and ZDF Enterprises.
  • Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition is the championship of the Television set miniseries release on DVD, Blu-ray, and video on demand in the US. This version of the miniseries comprises nine hours of story content, including more than 2 hours of additional footage non seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films. The four-disc set includes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Extended Edition, The Daughter Who Played with Fire – Extended Edition, The Daughter Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest – Extended Edition, and a bonus disc including two hours of special features.[29]

Parodies [edit]

  • The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010) – Adam Roberts
  • The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo (2011) – Lars Arffssen[thirty] [31]
  • The Girl who Fixed the Umlaut (2010) – Nora Ephron[32]
  • The Girl with the Sandwich Tattoo: A cruel parody (2013) – Dragon Stiegsson[xxx]
  • The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, an episode of Course by Patrick Ness

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Dessaix, Robert (22 February 2008). "The Daughter With The Dragon Tattoo". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  2. ^ Penny, Laurie (5 September 2010). "Girls, tattoos and men who hate women". New Statesman . Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  3. ^ PRich, Nathaniel (5 January 2011). "The Mystery of the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson, the World'south Bestselling — and About Enigmatic — Author". Rolling Rock . Retrieved 24 December 2012.
  4. ^ "The existent-life Swedish murder that inspired Stieg Larsson". Telegraph.co.uk. thirty November 2010. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Where is Hedestad really located?". The web resources for information about Sweden. Go-to-Sweden.com. Archived from the original on vi April 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
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  7. ^ McGrath, Charles (23 May 2010). "The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson". The New York Times Magazine.
  8. ^ "Sequel announced to Stieg Larsson's Daughter With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy". The Guardian. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  9. ^ MacDougal, Ian (27 February 2010). "The Man Who Blew Up the Welfare State". n+1 . Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  10. ^ a b c Alm, Cecilia Ovesdotter; Stenport, Anna Westerstahl (Summer 2009). "Corporations, Offense, and Gender Construction in Stieg Larsson'due south The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Exploring Xx-Commencement Century Neoliberalism in Swedish Civilization". Scandinavian Studies. 81 (2): 157.
  11. ^ Corrigan, Maureen (23 September 2008). "Super-Smart Noir With a Feminist Jolt". National Public Radio.
  12. ^ Sampaio, Maria de Lurdes (30 June 2011). "Millennium Trilogy: Eye for Eye and the Utopia of Order in Modern Waste product Lands". Cross-Cultural Communication. 7 (2): 73.
  13. ^ "2009 Galaxy British Book Awards. Winners. Shortlists. 1991 to nowadays". Literaryawards.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  14. ^ "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention: Anthony Awards and History". Bouchercon.info. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  15. ^ "The Anthony Awards". Bookreporter.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  16. ^ "100 All-time Books of the 21st Century". TheGuardian.com. 21 September 2019. Retrieved viii December 2019.
  17. ^ Allen, Katie (6 October 2008). "Rankin and P D James pick upwardly ITV3 awards". News. The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 9 Apr 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  18. ^ Berenson, Alex (11 September 2008). "Stieg Larsson'south The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". The New York Times . Retrieved nine July 2011.
  19. ^ Miller, Marjorie (17 September 2008). "Thawing a cold case in Scandinavia". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved ix July 2011.
  20. ^ Selman, Matt (20 February 2009). "Cold Noir". Time . Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  21. ^ Alleva, Richard (7 May 2010). "Off the folio: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo & Kick-Ass". Commonweal. New York City: Commonweal Foundation. 137 (9): 26.
  22. ^ Daar, Abdallah (29 July 2010). "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Nature. 466 (7306): 566. doi:10.1038/466563a.
  23. ^ Helfand, Michael (21 September 2008). "Posthumous Swedish Mystery 1 of Genre's Best". Pittsburgh Postal service-Gazette. p. E-six.
  24. ^ Winnipeg Free Press Archived 2010-05-xiii at the Wayback Machine on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: "The first volume sold 30 million copies and is available in 44 languages." (xv April 2010)
  25. ^ "Stieg Larsson Stats: By the Numbers". In the Bookroom. 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  26. ^ Bronson, Eric, ed. (2011). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN978-0470947586.
  27. ^ "James Bond to star in US Dragon Tattoo remake". BBC News. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  28. ^ Barrett, Annie (xvi August 2010). "'Dragon Tattoo' casts its Lisbeth Salander: Have you lot seen Rooney Mara in previous roles?". Popwatch.ew.com. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  29. ^ Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition. Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved eight June 2016.
  30. ^ a b "The Book Title With the 91 Imitators". www.vulture.com. 26 Jan 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  31. ^ Maslin, Janet (26 May 2011). "Summer's Embankment Books Get a Makeover". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  32. ^ Ephron, Nora (5 July 2010). "The Daughter who Fixed the Umlaut". The New Yorker . Retrieved 20 November 2011.

Publication details [edit]

  • Baronial 2005, Swedish: Norstedts (ISBN 978-91-1-301408-1), paperback (poss 1st edition)
  • 10 January 2008, United kingdom: MacLehose Printing/Quercus Banner (ISBN 978-1-84724-253-2), hardback (translated as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Reg Keeland)
  • 16 September 2008, U.s.a.: Alfred A. Knopf (ISBN 978-0-307-26975-1), hardback

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo

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