Spark

In an autobiographical novella, award-winning Swedish writer Linda Boström Knausgård describes the electric shock treatment she underwent for mental illness. In the harsh, In this disturbing narrative, the protagonist not only deals with drastic treatment methods, but even with the breakup of the marriage, with doubts about her maternal role and with the possibility, that he will never be able to write again, if he loses key memories due to electroshock. The sometimes austere, sometimes poetic text is not only the narrator' s attempt to come to terms with the circumstances that led her to a closed psychiatric ward, but also an effort to extract from the layers of memory everything she should not forget. Both moments of relieved happiness and records of one' s own failures.