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"Christopher Leandauer's erudite and elegant new book, Aftonbladet, is entertaining without being pretentious, informative without being pretentious, imaginative without confusing." - Gutenberg Boston. "A consistently enjoyable and thought-provoking read about the power of imagination." -BTJ gives the book a rating of 5 out of 5. “Interesting without being pretentious, insightful without being pretentious, and imaginative without being confusing.” Gutenberg-Posten “Christopher Leandor writes beautifully about the collaboration between author and reader” What happens when we read? Is literature something that exists only on the pages of a book, or does it arise from direct interaction between reader and book? Does the book remain the same, or does it change with each new reading? Can two people read the same book? Here, Christopher Lindor approaches literature from a new and unexpected perspective, and it quickly becomes clear: the reader writes the book. We readers are unreliable: we forget, and we remember wrongly. We skip and delete, and are happy to add details that the author overlooked. So, what does co-creative reading mean for critics and translators, mystery seekers and biblical interpreters? What did grandfather write in Kierkegaard's diary? Do we read with our eyes or our ears? What books does a dictator have in his library? Did Oedipus really kill his father? “The greatest benefit of Leandor’s book lies precisely in the free conversations about different ways of approaching the story that it leads us to.”