It wasn't intentional, of course.
Poor Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50 and did not get to enjoy the
success of the Millennium trilogy
, which sold 100 million copies!
A journalist by profession, addicted to tobacco and junk food,
he collapsed from a heart attack
climbing the stairs that took him to the editorial office, before his novels were published.
He had barely delivered the drafts of the first three books of the black series that was a global success,
“The Men Who Didn't Love Women”
, “The Girl Who Dreamed of a Match and a Can of Gasoline”;
and “The Queen in the Palace of Drafts.”
Defender of noble causes, persecutor of neo-fascists and declared feminist, Larsson
nevertheless left
the two most important women in his life helpless.
Stieg Larsson, in one of the few photos with which he is known.
It is known that, without scruples, the writer's family took over all the rights to his work.
Eva Gabrielsson, his partner for more than three decades, did not see a cent of an inheritance
estimated at $250 million.
An architect by profession, she claims that she helped write those stories.
But the justice system did not believe her and she had to settle for publishing a kind of autobiography, “Stieg Larsson and I.”
One thing brought another.
In December 2013, after the legal battle, Larsson's father and brother gave the green light to publishing house Norstedts
to continue the saga
.
And so it was that the key character of the series (along with journalist Mikael Blomkvist), he lost his charm.
Lisbeth Salander, the most iconic police heroine of recent years, was left at the mercy of hired writers.
Thin as a bird, abused and bisexual, that punk girl was
a ruthless and vigilant hacker.
She can be seen played by Noomi Rapace in the three Swedish films of the original trilogy, currently in Flow.
There her magnetism is still intact: I thought about “snapping” a couple of scenes and
ended up devoured by that female Sherlock
always accompanied by her Blomkvist-Watson side.
I started with the second part, continued with the third and returned to the first.
Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander) and Michael Nyqvist (Mikael Blomkvist) in a scene from "The Men Who Didn't Love Women", in Flow.
Ironically called “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,” the fourth part (both the novel and the movie) is just a spark of the original brilliance.
David Lagercrantz, the writer chosen to continue the business, even invented a twin sister for Lisbeth.
A kind of double,
like in bad soap operas
(remember "Black Pearl"), she plays on the side of the villains.
The other two that this man wrote, “The Man Who Chased His Shadow” and “The Girl Who Lived Twice,” no longer interested me.
Now it is a woman who seeks to give new impetus to Larsson's characters.
Karin Smirnoff was anointed by the author's heirs to oil the gears that lead to success with another series of three titles.
The first is already known: in “The Claws of the Eagle”, our heroine
leaves the leading role to a niece
(?).
Of course, along with the title it is clarified that it is “a novel by Lisbeth Salander.”