Pär lagerkvist det eviga leendet

Jag har bläddrat och läst i "Lovtal över svenska romaner" från Olle Holmberg. Jag pausade till nära essän angående "Det eviga leendet"-en kortroman av Pär Lagerkvist vilket kom ut första gången år Inledningsorden som citeras av Holmberg griper tag: " detta var enstaka gång några döda, dem satt samman någonstans inom mörkret, fanns visste dem inte, möjligen ingenstans, dem satt samt pratade på grund av att erhålla evigheten mot att gå".

första världskriget var över- otaliga liv hade släckts ut vid slagfälten samt i skyttegravarna- som ifall inte dödsängelns marsch därmed var utdragen nog fortsatte den tillsammans spanska sjukan. Jag kunna lätt föreställa mig den undergångsstämning vilket måste äga rått inom framför allt Europa beneath den på denna plats epoken. Vart tog samtliga dessa döda vägen? Nog är detta förståeligt för att den frågan ställdes samt att man så gärna ville tro att dem fanns någonstans- bortom regnbågen kanske beneath den på denna plats tiden fick religionen en verkligt uppsving, spiritismen likaså.

I Lagerkvists roman kastar sig enstaka grubblande man ner inom en kvarndamm. Han (och alla andra döda) får träffa Gud- ställa problem att diskutera om vilket som existerar meningen tillsammans med världen, existensen, skapelsen, människorna- Gud svarar då för att "han ej har menat något märkvärdigt; han

Pär Lagerkvist

Swedish writer ()

Pär Lagerkvist
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Born	()23 May Växjö, Sweden
Died	11 July () (aged&#;83) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, short story writer
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May – 11 July ) was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence^{[citation needed]} from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of a church.

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Lagerkvist was born in Växjö (Småland). He received a traditional religious education – he would later say, with little exaggeration, that he "had had the good fortune to grow up in a home where the only books known were the Bible and the Book of Hymns". In his teens

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Swedish novelist, poet and playwright Par Lagerkvist was born on May 23, in Vaxjo, Sweden. He attended the University of Uppsala briefly, but did not complete a degree. His first book was published in , the same year he left the University. In Lagerkvist moved to Paris. He lived abroad, mainly in France and Italy, for many years, and show more even after returning to Sweden, he traveled frequently in Europe. In his earlier writing, Lagerkvist was often bleakly pessimistic. His strong opposition to totalitarianism was voiced in the plays Victor in the Darkness and The Man without a Soul. In the s, however, his focus shifted, and his writing began to explore religious and moral themes, such as the struggle between good and evil or reconciliation with God. Works from this period include The Sibyl, The Death of Ahasuerus, Herod and Mariamne, and The Dwarf. Although he is now probably best known for The Dwarf, which was first published in the s, Lagerkvist's first international success came in , with the publication of Barrabas, a story about the life of the biblical character after he, rather