tirsdag den 24. maj 2011

Svend Åge Madsen - "Outside"

Novel "Outside" by Svend Aage Madsen about Annegrethe, a teenager who is so unhappy that she commits suicide. There are a lot of people who look to Annegrethe commit suicide, but they're not trying to stop her. They just sit there and see it happen. When you have read the story, sit back as a reader with the question of why Svend Aage Madsen, completes the story that way. I would make an analysis and interpretation try to answer.

I think the story takes place in Aarhus, which I justified by the narrator and his friends are starting to play football, because AGF Denmark has won the championship. In addition, going on an incredible number of Svend Åge Madsen's stories in Aarhus. When you read the story, one gets an impression that the action takes place many years ago when most families lived in small apartments. The only other indication of what time it is in is that both children in the family Kurtsen have double names, which is antiquated. Therefore, I think the story takes place in the 50s. Short story about a boy who together with his friends spectator a family's life through a window into the family's apartment. I assume that the family lives in an apartment because you normally only have a backyard if you live in the apartment. In apartment living family Kurtsen not have a lot of money, which is described in the story by: "[the family] sat in the small print" (ln.22 p. 4). The family has two children, named Niels Henning and Anne Grethe. Niels Henning is a boy who is some years older than the narrator. He comes with some troublemakers, who is half criminals. Niels Henning is the only family member who is aware that his family will be watched. Instead of chasing spy away, Niels Henning chose to come and collect money to be watched. According to the narrator goes the money for food and furniture for the family, and perhaps even for a dress for Annegrethe. Annegrethe is roughly the same age as the narrator, she begins to come with him for a short period. Annegrethe narrator describes as "a normal human being." (P. 6 ln. 105). Taking it into account and that she finally commits suicide, there can be no doubt that something is very wrong. Therefore, one can generally say that the parents Mr and Mrs Kurtsen not have a good relationship with their children.

The narrator, who is the protagonist in the story, is not described directly, but through the way he observes the action and how he describes it, one gets the reader a picture of him. You could say that the act is described as a film, the main character looks. It therefore makes some of the analysis easier to describe if you're talking about, that the act takes place in a cinema. The movie becomes more and more attractive action regularly because the kids get out of synch, and parents do not take care of them. In the context of what is cinema "upgraded". The canvas is better because the shift will be curtains. Since it is summer and drag the windows are opened, there will be sound on the film, which also stands in the story: "[it] was almost as great an invention, then began making movies talk." (P. 5 ln. 66) . Finally becomes the spectator seats in the expanded form of that fence will be demolished and is being built a cement staircase instead.

The author has built the story up so that the reader feels that you are sitting in rows and spectators attending the movie. Suddenly the narrator himself involved in the offense when he accidentally comes to greet Annegrethe because he thinks he knows her. It leads to him coming to visit the house that he would have only seen from the outside, which he seems quite exciting. The first narrator describes when he comes inside the house, has nothing to do with Annegrethe to do, but with how exciting it is to touch the things he knows so well. Since Annegrethe breaks up with the narrator, her reasoning that "it is not at her [the narrator] is interested in" (p. 6 ln.125). That Annegrethe says so, and the narrator's first description of his visit to the Anne Grethe, about the house furniture and not Annegrethe, gives the reader an impression that the narrator is not really interested in Annegrethe, but only that would be inside the house. It thus ends with the narrator again must stand outside and look in on Anne Grethe and the rest of the family.

From the outside looking narrator how Meg first attempt to commit suicide when it fails, and that she then tries again and succeeds. It is ridiculous that a bunch of people just stand and look on while Annegrethe twice tried to commit suicide, without any way to interfere. The narrator even says: "In a way I felt a little guilty [of Annegrethe sat with a gun], because I had never really done anything to be friends with her again after our quarrel. And I think probably there were others of us who stood out there and felt the same way. "(P.7 ln.158). It indicates that they could intervene and help Annegrethe if they wanted. Instead they choose to stand outside and look inside, to see if Annegrethe try again. As it happens, the narrator sits and hopes for an end to the second suicide attempt than the first time, and as he puts it: "It was like the air that there was something new every time. How to satisfy us. It's one of the most exciting I have experienced. When she pulled the saw really nothing new. She collapsed "(p. 8 ln. 193). Looking at it from outside, you will find enough suicidal for the tragic and not exciting. When the narrator looks at it as exciting, it should probably be seen as an indication that he did not have the perception of events. He sees it as a film which is better, the more tension there is.

The narrator lives his life through family Kurtsen where he just follow what happens. Story will have a post-modern twist, when Niels Henning comes out of the movie and "sell" tickets. It seems an even more pronounced post-modern crack when the narrator suddenly becomes mixed into the movie, and shortly after becoming molecule out again. This effect gives a glimpse of an answer to the question we are left with, and as I began with - why Annegrethe commit suicide? The narrator justifies suicide with that Annegrethe had a bad exam, the parents did not take care of her afterwards, and that her boyfriend disappeared. What is interesting is why Svend Aage Madsen finish his story that he does. I think Svend Aage Madsen leaves Annegrethe commit suicide, to show the ludicrous situation where a lot of people enjoy another person's tragic fate.

It is something you often see in today's Denmark. People do not care how other people have it, if only they are entertained, then it is immaterial whether those who entertain us feel good or not. The story will be made extremely absurd, because there are folded first Annegrethe attempt to commit suicide, and the spectators so expect that there is something else the second time, they sit and watch Anne Grethe attempt suicide. Narrator's comment when she is dead, has previously written that it's one of the most exciting he has ever seen. It makes the reader scratching his head and think that it was a strange idea of a suicide. But it's something like you see when people flock together to see a fire or a traffic accident. It is macabre, and there are both scary and tension in everyone. I think it's the fascination, as Svend Aage Madsen has described in the story. Han prøve at skildre, hvordan mennesker opføre sig i ulykkessituationer.