 Reviews of the work of Peter Lucas Erixon
In regard to form, Erixon has never been better, and thematically he spans over continents in his new book – geographically as well as existentially and politically. The overall impression is remarkably full of life – it is as if one has followed a gliding camera with a deep perspective lens.
Per Engström
I am once again deeply impressed. After certain novels one has the feeling of having come a step closer to the difficult definition of what it really means to be a human being – Dust and Breeze is definitely such a novel. It is far reaching and beautiful.
Christer B Jarlås, Länstidningen, Östersund
Dust and Breeze is an American novel with a European ‘soul' resonance, a study of human beings at rock bottom. One can very well call it existential – It is concerned with how we ought to live our lives.
Today the base, deconstructive elements dominate the arts. Peter Lucas Erixon attempts to show how a reconstruction of worth and meaning can come about. Dust and Breeze is a song of praise to dialogue.
Magnus Ringgren, Aftonbladet
Erixon's prose explodes in the skilful scenes which surround Michael Burkin.
The pictures become denser and press upon us with implacable clarity.
It is easy to like Dust and Breeze. It is an original book about a recapturing of life, melancholic and urgent, strong in its hesitation, weak in its entrenchment, near to life in a way which is characterized by first hand experience. It is a story to take seriously, to linger with.
Heidi von Born, Svenska Dagbladet
The language is beautiful and without ornament, accurate and demanding and in my reading the author takes yet another successful step ahead in his ever changing writing.
Strict and ascetic as always, one can say that he discusses the personal responsibility, the social life and the ego's need to heal wounds, forgive and go on. It is seriously meant and therefore none the less heartening. A song to life.
Tomas Larsson, Östersunds-Posten
A mighty score in novel form. It is a painful, beautiful and fantastic story, human and warm, alive and many dimensional. With Dust and Breeze Erixon wins my heart and has my complete attention.
Stefan Whilde, Tidningen Kulturen
An insistence on ethics goes as a red thread through Peter Lucas Erixon's writings, regardless of whether the plot is in the back woods of northern Sweden or, as in this book (also in Voices and Static) in New York.
A winding existential framework of thought. I have seldom seen so convincingly portrayed the difficulties which can arise in attempts for human contact. Peter Lucas Erixon has the courage to unceasingly and open heartedly put the eternal questions, and he answering them by going around in the issues and forming scenes which without explanations give insight to the crucial moments.
Marie Lundquist, Balder |
