Fyhr, Gothic Elements in Mare Kandre's Deliria p 5

Such a description could easily become Gothic, but it is here instead shown as something positive. The same is true of several depictions of repetition, for example: "Jag upprepar mig [...] som människan upprepar sig/i sina [...] barn./Som regnet upprepar sig [---] Som gräset [...] Som döden upprepar sina/lik" (s.112f) ["I repeat myself [...] like mankind repeats themselves/in their [...] children./Like the rain repeats itself [---] Like the grass [...] Like death repeats its/corpses"], as well as for structures in the form of Chinese boxes, for example: "under de varma spiltorna,/ännu en stad, nya rum" (s.130) ["below the warm stalls,/yet a city, new rooms"]. Here we also find positive circular structures, for example in the form of a menstrual cycle (s.24) and a picture of how children are born "i en vanvettig cirkel, /evinnerligen,/ur djup/vi inte ser" (s.139) ["in a mad circle,/eternally,/from depths/we do not see"]. But sometimes Deliria uses these structures to create a Gothic atmosphere. This happens when terrible aspects of the world or of a person's mind are shown together with the structures. One example of how the circle is used in this way is the passage about the woman in Deliria who walks in a circle around a pond, in an infertile world: "Och kvinnan ser så sorgsen ut där hon går i en cirkel/över marken kring dammen som om hon med sin egen/kropps lilla värme vill få jorden att spira" (s.164) ["And the woman looks so sad where she walks in a circle/over the ground around the pond as if she with her own/faint bodyheat wants to make the earth grow"]. The circle makes the movement seem hopeless, endless and connected with a sense of imprisonment. By this the typically Gothic sense of insolvability is created. In the surrounding text a feeling of decay and doom is created which, together with the repeated movement of the woman, creates the Gothic atmosphere, for example: "Underligt väder idag./Det ser så ödsligt ut [---] Och mjölken har surnat som om tiden står still, /i spjälsängen skriker sig barnet blodigt efter modern" (s.165) ["Strange weather today./It looks so desolate [---] And the

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Such a description could easily become Gothic, but it is here instead shown as something positive. The same is true of several depictions of repetition, for example: "Jag upprepar mig [...] som människan upprepar sig/i sina [...] barn./Som regnet upprepar sig [---] Som gräset [...] Som döden upprepar sina/lik" (s.112f) ["I repeat myself [...] like mankind repeats themselves/in their [...] children./Like the rain repeats itself [---] Like the grass [...] Like death repeats its/corpses"], as well as for structures in the form of Chinese boxes, for example: "under de varma spiltorna,/ännu en stad, nya rum" (s.130) ["below the warm stalls,/yet a city, new rooms"]. Here we also find positive circular structures, for example in the form of a menstrual cycle (s.24) and a picture of how children are born "i en vanvettig cirkel, /evinnerligen,/ur djup/vi inte ser" (s.139) ["in a mad circle,/eternally,/from depths/we do not see"]. But sometimes Deliria uses these structures to create a Gothic atmosphere. This happens when terrible aspects of the world or of a person's mind are shown together with the structures. One example of how the circle is used in this way is the passage about the woman in Deliria who walks in a circle around a pond, in an infertile world: "Och kvinnan ser så sorgsen ut där hon går i en cirkel/över marken kring dammen som om hon med sin egen/kropps lilla värme vill få jorden att spira" (s.164) ["And the woman looks so sad where she walks in a circle/over the ground around the pond as if she with her own/faint bodyheat wants to make the earth grow"]. The circle makes the movement seem hopeless, endless and connected with a sense of imprisonment. By this the typically Gothic sense of insolvability is created. In the surrounding text a feeling of decay and doom is created which, together with the repeated movement of the woman, creates the Gothic atmosphere, for example: "Underligt väder idag./Det ser så ödsligt ut [---] Och mjölken har surnat som om tiden står still, /i spjälsängen skriker sig barnet blodigt efter modern" (s.165) ["Strange weather today./It looks so desolate [---] And the 5

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