August Strindberg
The People of Hemso: A Story from the Islands Paperback Book
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August Strindberg (18491912, Swedens internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific allrounder. The new National Edition of his works will run to seventytwo volumes he was a writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and satire, he experimented with early photography, and in recent years his paintings have achieved the recognition they deserve.His novel The People of Hems (1887) will come as a surprise to most Englishlanguage readers, used as they are to seeing the bitter controversialist of plays like The Father and Miss Julie or the seeker for cosmic meaning and reconciliation of those mysterious later dream plays To Damascus and A Dream Play. This novel, a tragicomic story of lust, love and death among the fishermen and farmers of the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago, reveals a very different Strindberg. The vigour and humour of the narration, as well as its cinematic qualities, are such that we witness a great series of peopled panoramas in which place and time and character are somehow simultaneously specific and archetypical, and we leave the novel with memories of grand landscapes and spirited scenes. In a recent essay Ludvig Rasmusson wrote For me, The People of Hems is the Great Swedish Novel, just as ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [is] the Great American Novel. His comparison is an apt one if the Mississippi becomes the quintessence of America, the island of Hems and the archipelago become the quintessence of Sweden.
Binding: Paperback;164 pages; Publisher: Norvik Press LTD; Classification: FA; Weight: 306 g; Dimensions: 205 x 142 x 9
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August Strindberg (18491912, Swedens internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific allrounder. The new National Edition of his works will run to seventytwo volumes he was a writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and satire, he experimented with early photography, and in recent years his paintings have achieved the recognition they deserve.His novel The People of Hems (1887) will come as a surprise to most Englishlanguage readers, used as they are to seeing the bitter controversialist of plays like The Father and Miss Julie or the seeker for cosmic meaning and reconciliation of those mysterious later dream plays To Damascus and A Dream Play. This novel, a tragicomic story of lust, love and death among the fishermen and farmers of the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago, reveals a very different Strindberg. The vigour and humour of the narration, as well as its cinematic qualities, are such that we witness a great series of peopled panoramas in which place and time and character are somehow simultaneously specific and archetypical, and we leave the novel with memories of grand landscapes and spirited scenes. In a recent essay Ludvig Rasmusson wrote For me, The People of Hems is the Great Swedish Novel, just as ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [is] the Great American Novel. His comparison is an apt one if the Mississippi becomes the quintessence of America, the island of Hems and the archipelago become the quintessence of Sweden.
Binding: Paperback;164 pages; Publisher: Norvik Press LTD; Classification: FA; Weight: 306 g; Dimensions: 205 x 142 x 9
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Northern Ireland Standard Delivery
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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