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...
Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer's central themes and the imagery and motifs he uses to develop them. This in-depth study begins with a brief introduction to the social and literary backgrounds that are the foundations for Enquist's writing. His work is presented in chronological fashion beginning with his early psychological novels written in the tradition of the French nouveau roman and proceeding to his highly regarded documentary novels and popular plays. Shideler traces Enquist's fascination with modern man's...
Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer's central themes and the imagery and motifs...
