In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time. While most Allied and foreign journalists spun their writing on the widely held belief that the German people deserved their fate, Dagerman disagreed and reported on the humanness of the men and women ruined by the war--their guilt and suffering. Dagerman was already a prominent...
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Re...
A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction
In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mothers memory, but he soon finds himself drawn into a fevered and forbidden affair with the very woman he set out to destroy . ....
A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times S...
