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Pär Lagerkvist: Five Early Works
| Author: | Swanson, Roy Lagerkvist, Pär | |
| Year: | 1989 | |
| Pages: | 200 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-019-1 978-0-88946-019-5 | |
| Price: | $159.95 | |
Lagerkvist (1891-1974) introduced a new spirit of modernism into Swedish poetry, prose, and drama. In this work Swanson translates many of Lagerkvist's short stories, a play, prose sketches, and essays. Contains short stories from Iron and Men; the play The Last Man; prose sketches The Expectant Guest and The Morning; and essays from The Clenched Fist.
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". . . very informative introduction . . . very useful bibliography . . . translations of the texts are meticulous and fine-tuned, to the point that they no longer read like translations . . . useful purchase for academic and public libraries." - Choice