IN 1946, THE Swedish novelist Stig Dagerman traveled to Germany to write a series of articles about the civilian population in the aftermath of war. He was only twenty-three, but he had published two ...

‘Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You must now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permits you to be someone good and just. There are many who will say ...

Stig Dagerman is one of Sweden's most widely read and beloved authors in France and Italy. In other countries, on the other hand, he has not been as successful. Literary scholar Karin Dahl at the ...

Dagerman's language, as translated by Laurie Thompson, is the heightened language of poetry. He speaks in images, metaphors and indirection. It is language that seems to run from idea to idea with raw ...

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for ...

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