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Siamesisk: Roman (2000)

by Stig Sæterbakken(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8202175437 (ISBN13: 9788202175436)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

J.W. Cappelen

review 1: Siamese is the story of a married couple, the blind husband that sits in the bathroom all day and night and tries to delve himself into existentialist thought and the wife that can barely hear and does not know exactly what to do. Both of them know that they are getting old, and having no real family or friends to call on, they feel as if they only have one another. The problem of course is that the codependency is not presented in a healthy, viable way but instead is coaxed out of the situation by the husband's tyrants, anger, jealousy, and sheer meanness. The thing is that even when he does mean what he says, when he tells his wife to get the hell away from him, as soon as she leaves, he wonders where she went. She feels sad about his situation, but then she decides that... more she is not going to feed him for a few days, and maybe rent his room out. They both have no real ways to express their true feelings so they are mean and passive aggressive to each other, thus leave a story that is blind and deaf to the true nature of what is suppose to be happening in a marriage where there is not as much activity but the need for more physical and emotional support. That is what Saeterbakken projects flawlessly. There is not one moment when you he tells the story of the situation instead of showing the story. He knows that you have to figure out that this relationship is not healthy on your own, and maybe use this to reflect the relationships that you have, whether or not it is anything like the one in "Siamese" or something better. This is the sign of a true artist: one who tells a story, but is really making you reflect on your own life.
review 2: The constant struggle between Edwin and Sweetie was painful to watch, and yet it seemed plausible that this couple could end up that way. Self-absorbed and absorbed with each other, existing without living. This is a depressing, bleak story, but there is love there, and it stood out brightly to me like a whisper of light, maybe because I was desperately looking for it, refusing to believe their life could only hold despair. less

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