Multitude of Reviews for Maxim Grigoriev’s ‘Adrian’

Maxim Grigoriev’s latest novel Adrian continues to receive high praise from critics. Here’s a compilation of the latest reviews:

“Grigoriev’s prose is so rich and winding that he makes quite a few other contemporary Swedish authors look like idiots. And I find the anger with which he makes his case for literature with a capital L, and the care he shows his Don Quixote-like hero, is immensely appealing. I’m counting down the days until his next novel.”
– ETC (SE)

“Grigoriev is a conscious and driven writer with an impressing and lively eloquence. […] I know that some parts of this novel will resonate within me for a long time to come. So go ahead and read it!”
– Borås Tidning (SE)

“The dialogue is brilliant, razor-sharp.”
– Sveriges Radio, Kulturnytt (SE)

“The main character, Adrian, is always present, even while he’s absent in the parts that follow the novel’s other characters. He is portrayed from within and from the outside, through hatred, jealousy, disgust and infatuation. He becomes a feeling and an object of desire. Still, he is very difficult to pin down. Grigoriev has successfully created a multifaceted and ever-changing character without shying away from the ugly, the unsympathetic and the unexpected. Adrian shifts from a young, beautiful man with high ambitions and a snobbish attitude to a person who is truly spiritually homeless. […] The novel leaves me with a whirlwind of emotions and thoughts. It is intrusive and poignant. Adrian is a masterful novel.”
– KULT Magasin (SE)

Adrian was published by Albert Bonniers Förlag on September 9th, 2026.