5/13/2023 0 Comments "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson![]() "There Are Things I Want You To Know", Gabrielsson explains who Larsson was by explaining who she is - an architect, a collaborator and, apparently, an archetypical alpha-wife of a messy writer - and who they were together. It's more of the same, really, and she knows she was there. ![]() Gabrielsson writes, of a fictional crime, "Everything of this nature described in The Millennium Trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman. ![]() ![]() What's ostensibly missing in the still-churning legend of Larsson, and revealed in his widowed partner Eva Gabrielsson's memoir-cum-treatise of their life and her legal battle (it was first released this winter in both Swedish and French) is the fact that such real-life dramatics have always closely surrounded the trilogy. Or, so goes the luridly thrilling story of the now famously dead and famously wronged author, who never officially married his long-time partner, which led to the profits and, more crucially, the rights of his Millennium Trilogy going to his estranged brother and father instead. ![]() When Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50 in Sweden, he left behind a puzzle almost as dark and just as convoluted as those found in his novels ![]()
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