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The stranger-than-fiction life story of the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
His three novels are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written, and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larrson was not able to witness their international success. Since he died in 2004 the author of the Millennium trilogy has received international fame with dizzying speed. But when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it is clear that his life would be remembered as truly extraordinary even had his trilogy never been published. Larrson was a workaholic: a political activist, photographer, graphic designer, a respected journalist, and the editor of numerous science fiction magazines. At night, to relax, he wrote crime novels. By the time of his death at the age of 50 he had completed The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next, the third book featuring the hypnotic Lisbeth Salander. His relentless personality and political convictions did not make life easy. He famously took on some dangerous neo-Nazi opponents, making for much speculation that his enemies, who often told him that his days were numbered, may have a hand in his premature demise. This difficult man, brilliant and multifaceted, is the subject of a penetrating biography and a celebration of his remarkable life and books.
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Thomas Wanous
reviewed The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson on July 07, 2010
The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson
First, this is a welcome volume. The Millennium Trilogy phenomenon and the untimely death of author Stieg Larsson is compelling material. There is enough here to make this a worthwhile purchase. Still, it is, in the end, a bit disappointing.
Why? For one thing, the summary/.synopsis of the books is not representative of what I read. Maybe the author read the book in the original language and the translation didn't capture things clearly. Examples: On page 178, Forshaw notes that Salander--after coming back from her grave--is back in Zalachenko's house holding on to Niedermann's P-83 Wanad gun. The giant had a Sig Sauer--the Wanad was from someone else. Page 130. Forshaw notes that Salander fantasizes setting her abductor (presumably Teleborian afire); unless I misread the thing, she is remembering her attack on Daddy Dearest, not Teleborian. Pages 116-117. He doesn't mention that Salander had identified additional possible victims beyond the original five that Blomkvist was aware of. Page 202: The doctor in the emergency room who did surgery is identified as a psychiatrist. While he had some training along those lines, he was primarily a surgeon. This takes away from this book.
There is a useful portrayal of Larsson and his family and his partner, Eva Gabrielsson. But it seems to be rather cursory. There is not a lot of detail. I come to see Larsson as not taking care of himself very well, perhaps contributing to his early death. We see him as driven by political concerns. And so on. But I don't get a clear sense of Larsson the person.
Toward the end of the book, there is a fine discussion of other Scandinavian crime fiction and I did truly enjoy other writers' comments--both critical and laudatory--of Larsson's trilogy. There are a handful of pages on the Swedish movies that have come out of the books. A bit brief, but I did find this helpful.
So, there are some good aspects of this work, but it gets some details wrong in the synopsis of the three books and I don't really get an insight into Larsson the person and those close to him.
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