Word: realisme
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There's a strong dose of social realism in the novels, in keeping with Scandinavian tradition. Domestic violence is a central theme in Silence of the Grave, which won a British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award in 2005. Arctic Chill explores the tensions caused by a recent influx of immigrants to Iceland. But Indridason tempers the sociology with a big dollop of old-fashioned suspense. He's a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, and takes pains to entice his readers with an intriguing first chapter. Hitchcock would probably have relished the first scene of Silence of the Grave: a baby...
...that, one hopes, will soon inject a degree of realism into non-American hopes for an Obama presidency, and cause policymakers to concentrate on their many own tasks rather than imagining a dreamy world in which competing national interests have somehow disappeared. Europeans, in particular, need to get past the lovestruck phase of their Obamaphilia - typified by that still astonishing crowd of 200,000 that cheered him in Berlin last summer - and have a clear look at the world they inhabit, and how they might best...
...kaleidoscopic and thoroughly disorienting as to constitute an experience totally unlike any other in contemporary mainstream American film.But there’s more at work in “Synecdoche” than can be readily explained. Beyond the Brechtian overtones of its self-referential theater, aspects of magical realism abound, tempered but not undernourished. Transposition of a diary across time and space, animate flower tattoos that whither along with their host, and a burning house whose inhabitants tolerate and ignore it for decades all play roles in “Synecdoche, New York.” The film...
...thought of having sex with their wives, they retreat into passivity or run far, far away into delusion.Tsutsui’s own detached narrative voice allows the reader to laugh at events that would otherwise be overly pathetic or horrifying. The clever blend of science fiction and realism allows Tsutsui to defamiliarize the familiar and highlight certain similarities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. The routine parts of life—worries about what the boss will say, or the wife will do, or the men will think—are emphasized even more against the backdrop...
There's another word for this naivet: realism. Though he rarely admits it, President Bush has made realism the centerpiece of his second term, dispatching envoys to sit down with Sunni insurgents in Iraq, the Stalinist leadership in North Korea and the theocrats of Iran. The results have been mixed at best, and no one believes the Taliban will give up as soon as the U.S. breaks bread with them. But the alternative--endless conflict and occupation--is worse. The next President will take office in an age of dwindling resources, diminished U.S. influence and a public weary...