Virgili, Fabrice
A Swedish cop behind the Iron Curtain. Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, The Man who Went Up in Smoke, 1966
- 2018.
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Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, the pioneers of Scandinavian crime fiction, published a novel in 1966 that takes place in Budapest, on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The authors play with the clichés of the spy novel in order to offer a sharp social criticism of a paradise. But which one?