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They are words used by people who think of art in an emotional way.” At another point, in true futurist mode, he proclaims that “a traffic jam is more beautiful than a F***ing symphony orchestra.” “There are certain words that I never want to hear in my classroom,” he states. From the outset he lays down the law to his pupils. Their instructor, a man named Malik, turns out to be a vehement apostle of contemporary art.

The other involves Max’s daughter Eva, the younger of their two daughters, and her sojourn at an art school in London. Two strains of the narrative bring the novel to life. Many of the characters in the novel would resent being called bourgeois, but the temptations of the bourgeois universe - getting rid of an ugly, old sofa, re-painting the walls so they are “modern and white” - are very much at play. Katriina, for example, drowns her sorrows not just in glasses of wine but in a powerful desire for a new, renovated kitchen. If this were indeed a crime novel, Laura Lempela would probably be dead by now, carrying her secret to the grave.īut Teir has set himself a different problem than that of a crime novelist, which is to make his readers care for a rather boring set of characters. But her motivation, aside from sex, is somewhat of a mystery. Laura certainly can take a man’s mind off all this. The interview is also a distraction from his problems - his heavy-drinking spouse Katriina, who feels neglected by him, his magnum opus, a scholarly biography of the 19 th century Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, which shows no sign of being completed despite the urgings of his publisher. You can practically feel the pages of the reporter’s notebook curling up with the heat of passion. The reader quickly gets the feeling that this interview is about more than just the latest trends in Finnish sociology. So much does he miss his fame that he quickly agrees when an attractive freelance journalist named Laura Lempela, some thirty years his junior, asks for an interview.

It was not the most enviable label but Paul, now almost 60, nonetheless misses his notoriety - at times he’s reduced to arguing with strangers late at night on the Internet. In his heyday he was a well known figure in Finnish media, a frequent guest on talk television, known to journalists as the “sex professor,” after having published a study of Finnish sexual practices. His protagonist, Max Paul, is, like the author, a “Finland-Swede.” The breed seems to be a psychological type known only to Scandinavians - at one point a character comments, “Arguing about a summer cottage? How typically Finland-Swedish is it going to get?” Arguments about summer cottages aside, Paul, a sociologist teaching at a university in Finland, could well be a prime suspect in a murder investigation, for a number of reasons.

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