Revenge is Sweet

What do you do when rage explodes inside your brain like a gunshot and all you want is revenge? InIida Rauma’s novel Destruction, winner of the prestigious Finlandia Prize and recipient of an honourable mention in the European Union Prize for Literature, the author comes to terms with her tormentors from school, the violence she was subjected to and the grown-up world’s sanctioning of bullying. In author and psychologist Jenny Jägerfeld’s The Revenge Project, Nemi’s thirst for revenge has not been eradicated even though she is now an adult, a divorced parent, and a qualified psychologist – in other words, someone who should most definitely no longer harbour any kind of revenge fantasies. And she most definitely shouldn’t seek out revenge. Moderator: Ida Linde, author.