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Harry Martinson (1904–1978)

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About the Author

Harry Martinson was born in Jämshög, Sweden on May 6, 1904. When he was six his father died and then his mother immigrated to America, leaving him and his sisters as parish orphans, fostered out to various families. He ran away from his foster parents and went to sea from 1920 to 1927. After mostrar mais returning to Sweden, ill with tuberculosis and destitute, he came under the care of his future wife, Moa Swartz, who became a well-known author in her own right. His first book of poetry, Spökskepp (Ghost Ship), was published in 1929. He also wrote a collection of poetry entitled Passad (Trade Wind) and an epic poem about space travel entitled Aniara. His novels include Nässlorna Blomma (Flowering Nettle), Vägen Ut (The Way Out), Kap Farväl (Cape Farewell), and Vägen till Klockrike (The Road). He was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1949, a notable achievement for a writer with no formal education. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature with novelist Eyvind Johnson. Their honors were considered controversial, since they were close friends and both had been long-time members of the Swedish Academy. He was offended by the insinuation of corruption and withdrew into depression. He committed suicide on February 11, 1978. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Harry Martinson

Aniara (1956) — Autor — 449 exemplares
Nässlorna blomma (1935) 194 exemplares
The Road (1948) 182 exemplares
Vägen ut (1936) 50 exemplares
Resor utan mål : Kap Farväl! (1932) 46 exemplares
Kap Farväl! (1934) 39 exemplares
Dikter (1974) 29 exemplares
Resor utan mål (1943) 18 exemplares
Passad (1945) 17 exemplares
Svärmare och harkrank (1937) 16 exemplares
Dikter : 1929-1953, 1958-1973 (2000) 14 exemplares
Wild Bouquet: Nature Poems (1974) 14 exemplares
Den förlorade jaguaren (1941) 13 exemplares
Vagnen : [dikter] (2016) 13 exemplares
The Procession of Memories (2009) 11 exemplares
KULKIJAN PILVILINNAT ; ANIARA (1976) 11 exemplares
Vinden på marken 11 exemplares
Cikada : dikter (2016) 9 exemplares
Tuvor : [dikter] (1973) 8 exemplares
Aniara [2018 movie] (2018) — Autor — 8 exemplares
Dikter : 1958-1973 (1974) 7 exemplares
Ur de tusen dikternas bok (1986) 5 exemplares
ANTOLOGIA POETICA (1901) 5 exemplares
Tre knivar från Wei 5 exemplares
Dramatik (1999) 5 exemplares
Naturessäer (2000) 4 exemplares
Dikter 1953-73 (1998) 4 exemplares
Jordenruntresan (2003) 3 exemplares
Natur 3 exemplares
Dikter 1929-1945 (1997) 3 exemplares
Strandgeruis (2006) 2 exemplares
Verklighet till döds 2 exemplares
Kring Aniara (1989) 2 exemplares
Nomad 2 exemplares
Vishetens ord i öster (1977) 2 exemplares
Elin Wägner 2 exemplares
Kåserier på allvar (1984) 2 exemplares
Mellan pelarna (1983) 2 exemplares
Midsommardalen 1 exemplar
Aniara (2020) 1 exemplar
Den förlorade vandringen (2021) 1 exemplar
Engelsk lyrik 1 exemplar
Kalaboza [rakonto] 1 exemplar

Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 388 exemplares
Friends, You Drank Some Darkness (1975) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Meesters der Zweedse vertelkunst — Autor, algumas edições10 exemplares
Stella Polaris : fantastiske fortellinger fra Norden (1982) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
New constellations: An anthology of tomorrow's mythologies (1976) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Ice Floe : New and Selected Poems (2010) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Det nappar! Det nappar! : en antologi (2006) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Antaeus No. 15, Autumn 1974 - Special Translation Issue (1974) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Martinson, Harry
Nome legal
Martinson, Harry Edmund
Data de nascimento
1904-05-06
Data de falecimento
1978-02-11
Localização do túmulo
Silverdals griftegård, Sollentuna
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Sweden
Local de nascimento
Jämshög, Sweden
Local de falecimento
Stockholm, Sweden
Causa da morte
suicide
Ocupações
poet
novelist
merchant seaman
laborer
Relações
Martinson, Moa (wife)
Organizações
Swedish Academy (1949)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Nobel Prize (Literature, 1974)
Nota de desambiguação
VIAF:14773510

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Críticas

DNF somewhere in the outer solar system.

I'm sure it's better in the original, but this translation of the epic Swedish science fiction poem left me colder than the interstellar vacuum. Not a patch on the 2018 film adaptation.
 
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yarb | 13 outras críticas | Jan 4, 2024 |
Nässlorna blomma är en roman från 1935 av den svenske författaren Harry Martinson. Nässlorna blomma, och fortsättningen Vägen ut, är delvis självbiografiska och skildrar en föräldralös pojkes osäkra tillvaro i fattigsverige.
 
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CalleFriden | 4 outras críticas | Feb 6, 2023 |
Martinson's big picaresque novel of vagrant life follows the adventures of Bolle, a skilled worker — a cigar-maker — who loses his job to mechanisation in the 1890s, and goes on the road as a vagrant after he is unable to raise the fare to America. It's not so much a straight narrative as a collage of incidents and themes in vagrant life — obviously based to some extent on Martinson's own experiences as a vagrant the 1920s, but set back into the years before the First World War.

Martinson uses Bolle's experiences particularly to reflect on the fear and hostility people without a fixed home inspire in those who have one, and the way this affects the character and behaviour of homeless people. But he also has time to talk about the arbitrary injustices of the social care system and the criminalisation of vagrancy, about the joy of travelling on foot through the Swedish landscape and the way that style of vagrancy is becoming a thing of the past with the advent of trains and cars, about pleasant and unpleasant encounters with country people in different parts of Sweden and Norway, and a thousand other things. Through dream-sequences and a kind of magic realist finale in a brickworks he also (half-ironically) sets out what might be an existentialist philosophy (or an anti-religion) providing an intellectual framework for vagrancy.

A big, warm, compassionate book, and a very strongly-felt one, but also a firmly realistic view of the world and its troubles: not the place to go if you want the romance of the road.

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Zeit der Unruhe is a publisher-specific selection of German translations of ten of Eyvind Johnson's short stories originally published between the 1920s and the 1940s, in several different Swedish collections.

The title-story, originally "En tid av oro för Eugenia" (in Än en gång, kapten!, 1934), is a lovely piece about a woman who has a slightly too colourful past for a small town, but is now trying to settle down, running a haberdashery shop and engaged to marry the house-painter and (almost) reformed drinker, Göransson. The town unsuccessfully tries to needle them both about her former boyfriends, but then the news comes through that Emil is coming back from America, presumably having made his fortune...

"Burell tappar kraftarna" and "Vallberg" are both stories about showmen trying to make a living in rural backwaters as progress — and younger competitors — catch up with them, the former featuring a young projectionist who must be a self-portrait. Then there are a couple of stories set in a remote railway-hamlet in the North, and a set of more reflective pieces dealing with social and technological change in 20th century Sweden, culminating in "I det Overkliga", a touching little sketch where the narrator and a friendly farmer go on a fishing trip to some mountain lakes, whilst discussing how we can deal with the contradiction of being out enjoying ourselves in beautiful scenery whilst knowing that elsewhere in Europe bombs are falling on civilians.

Probably not enough to get a full picture of what Johnson is about, but certainly enough to see that he must be a very interesting writer, with an unusual perspective on life.
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thorold | 5 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2023 |
Cuando tiene siete años, después de que su madre lo abandona y su hermana mayor muere, es recogido por la parroquia que, a su vez, lo va entregando a distintas familias, cada cual peor que la anterior, hasta que, al asistir a la escuela, empieza a ver algo de luz.
 
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Natt90 | 4 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2022 |

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