"A thorough overview of the very particular nature of Dante's treatise. It discusses the work as the distinctive product of the poet's exile, a universal statement on language that coincides with and complements Dante's conception of Empire. This text contains much valuable commentary." -- Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin.
"A thorough overview of the very particular nature of Dante's treatise. It discusses the work as the distinctive product of the poet's exile, a univer...
First published in Sweden in 1976, Children s Island increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, which has sold more than400,000 copies in Sweden alone, has been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian. A film was made out of it. The University of Nebraska Press is the first to make available in English a book in some ways reminiscent of J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye.
Children s Island is told from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy, Reine Larsson, who succeeds in not going to summer...
First published in Sweden in 1976, Children s Island increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, whi...
Dea Trier Morch depicts with uncommon skill an experienec that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. Set in a maternity ward for difficult cases, her novel is unique in focusing on the weeks immediately before and after delivery. While December gives way to the new year the women enocunter the private anxieties and mysteries of motherhood, sharing a profound sense of solidarity and warmth in the midst of winter.Joan Tate's superb translation of the European best-seller introduces Dea Trier Morch to American readers. Morch, the author of five other books...
Dea Trier Morch depicts with uncommon skill an experienec that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. Set in a ...
The Roofing Ceremony is a powerful, ultimately hopeful short novel that will revise the narrow view of August Strindberg as merely a misogynist and the gloomiest of Scandinavian writers. This novel has an inwardness, irreducibly and complexly human, that looks back to Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and forward to Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.
Published in Sweden in 1906 and never before translated into English, The Roofing Ceremony (Taklagsol) anticipates in its turbulent intensity the chamber plays Strindberg was soon to write. It is about a dying man, once an...
The Roofing Ceremony is a powerful, ultimately hopeful short novel that will revise the narrow view of August Strindberg as merely a misogynist...
