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Det brutna kontraktet : Om den missförstådda genren <em>dokumentärroman</em> och vad som sker när kontraktet mellan författare och läsare upphävs / The Broken Contract : About the misunderstood genre non fiction novel and what happens when the contract between the author and the reader is cancelled

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The topic of this essay is to show why I regard the <em>non fiction novel</em> as a problematic genre and to compare two popular and famous swedish non fiction novels; <em>Legionärerna</em> (1968) by Per Olov Enquist and <em>Gömda</em> (1995) by Maria Eriksson and Liza Marklund.</p><p>I start with giving a short introduction to modern genre theory and to non fiction novels as a genre. I also discuss different definitions of non fiction novels by, for example, Rolf Yrlid and Lars-Olof Franzén. Then I discuss Enquist’s <em>Legionärerna</em> and the critics’ reception of it. I am also doing the same with Eriksson’s and Marklund’s <em>Gömda</em> before I compare these two novels with each other.</p><p> </p><p>My conclusion is that <em>Legionärerna</em> and <em>Gömda</em> have a lot in common although there are some differences. One important difference is that the uncertainty between fact and fiction in <em>Legionärerna</em> seems to be an important part of the novel, in contrast to <em>Gömda</em> which has a political purpose but no discussion about objectivity and the limit between fact and fiction.</p><p>The big problem with non fiction novels, as I see it, is that a lot of people regards the genre as fact but according to a number of scholars it is more convenient too see it as a mixture between fact and fiction where the author both interprets and manipulates the actual events.</p><p>Though there are no established definition of what a non fiction novel is the author of a non fiction novel  has a responsibility to the reader to write in the beginning of the novel if the plot is true or not. We can compare this declaration by the author with a contract between the author and the reader which is cancelled if it turns out that the declaration is false.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-4495
Date January 2009
CreatorsMöller, Valdemar
PublisherKarlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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