Külvárosi vámpírsztori

Renátó Támba

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XVII. , Issue 2, 2022, p. 87-100, ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2022.17.2.87-100

Abstract:

The Let me in is the swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist’s first novel which changed the vampire genre, because he put his horror story in the suburban milieu of the eighties. The intentionally decontentrated plot of the book is made up of many fragments of life, which make up Blackeberg’s social status. The most important story lines are the story of Oskar and Eli; Oskar is a 12 years old boy who is bullied by his classmates, and Eli is a vampire, who is no longer a noble creature or an ubermensch like Count Dracula, she/he lacks his hunter instinct – his/her human servant gets the blood, that is needed by Eli. In this story anything is dominated and permeated by the numbing mediocrity, the misery and the hopelessness, and the main characters fits in this milieu, despite every fantastic item of the story. In my paper I attempt to present the Let me in, focusing on the poetic and narrative characteristics, the characterization of the plot and characters and the interpretation of genre features.

Keywords: John Ajvide Lindqvist, vampire story, naturalism, social drawing, popular register

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