Is this something you intended to highlight? My first impression of ‘Illska’ is that of the complexity of human society-the seemingly essential state of conflicts implied in human coexistence.
We contacted Eiríkur to congratulate him on his work and ask him a few questions about it. Eiríkur simultaneously tells a number of different stories from the past and present through the above-mentioned characters, who are often faced with the complicated, paradoxical conflict between who we believe we are and who others believe we are. These four are the main protagonists of Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl’s most recent novel, ‘Illska’ (“Evil”), which was awarded the 2012 Icelandic Literary Prize last month. Finally, Snorri is the newborn son of Agnes and Ómar-or of Agnes and Arnór-who slowly but systematically gets to know the complex nature of human existence.
Arnór is an educated Neo-Nazi who gets to know Agnes through her thesis work and winds up having an affair with her. Her boyfriend Ómar carries with him all of his problems from youth, unsolved and silenced, and is incapable of finding himself a fixed existential position. Raised in Iceland by Lithuanian parents, Agnes is a history student writing her thesis on today’s right wing populism and its resemblance to the Nazi’s Third Reich.
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