At times a reading both fun and exhilarating, and occasionally periodic moments of disgust or despair. But between these covers hatred is seriously examined and accounted for. As the back cover blurbs suggest, there turns out to be absolutely no hope for anyone's redemption. And only a small pers...
Ένα αλληγορικό κείμενο πάνω στα όρια της κακίας, του νάνου, που ενυπάρχει σε όλους μας, μια βουτιά στο άδυτο της μισανθρωπίας και του μηδενισμού.An allegorical text on the borders of malice, on the dwarf, which is inherent in all of us, a dip in the sanctuary of human misanthropy and nihilism.
But sitting here, old and alone, looking back—looking back over my life, it is you, my god, that I think of. For it is you who have been my life, you who consume and burn all things like fire. You who leave nothing in your wake. My life is what I have lived in you. The cruel, bitter, rich life you h...
The Dwarf is a strange little book written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner some time during WWII. It’s a rather allegoric story narrated by a dwarf living on the court in an unnamed Italian city probably in the 15th century, but actually all the hints point us in the same direction as Machiavelli’s ...
This 1951 novel takes the very interesting premise of playing out the life of Barabbas after he is freed and Jesus is crucified. Lagerkvist (Nobel prize winner), portrays Barabbas as many would imagine him -- strong, violent, brooding, and dangerous. But Lagerkvist takes it further by showing the im...
I can’t imagine a more special book of poetry. Start off with the poems of a Swedish Nobel Prize winner. Have them translated by WH Auden. And already you are interrupting. Yes, I know. You didn’t know that Auden spoke Swedish. Well he doesn’t. This book has a go-between, Leif Sjoberg, who gave a pl...
The one man in history who could say with absolute certainty that his life was saved by Christ attempts to live as a Christian in first century Rome and fails spectacularly.
What "The Prince" by Machiavelli could and might have been without being all that unbearably Machiavellian. The world and meaning of life according to an amazing villain who may be half height, but is double evil too. Great to read when you fall in hate with someone. The Dwarf will teach you to hate...
In a little house on the mountain slopes above Delphi lived an old woman with her witless son.My verdict is still out on this one so have marked it the 'lagom' way for now.
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