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Americans and other English speakers have long associated the name of Hans Christian Andersen exclusively with fairy tales for children. Danes and other Scandinavians, however, have preserved an awareness that the fairy tales are but part of an extensive and respectable lifework that embraces several other literary forms. Moreover, they have never lost sight of the fact that the fairy tales themselves address adults no less than children. Significantly, many of Andersens coevals in the U.S. knew...

Elsie Lindtner is a woman at the dangerous age of forty-two in a society that values women only as marriageable items. After twenty-two years of comfortable but loveless marriage, Elsie divorces her husband and goes off to live alone on an island. But little by little her longing for solitude is tempered by the realities of loneliness and sexual deprivation. First published in 1910 to raves and outrage, selling over a million copies and inspiring three films, The Dangerous Age created a sensatio...

Ce livre porte sur les relations culturelles entre la France et la Suède de 1945 à nos jours. Il réunit les articles présentés à l?occasion de la conférence internationale, « Frankrike-Sverige ? Tur och retur », qui a eu lieu à Stockholm en janvier 2014, organisée par l?Université Paris-Sorbonne et l?Université de Stockholm. Ces vingt-deux articles tracent ensemble une histoire croisée des médiations matérielles et immatérielles, dynamiques et complexes, ayant permis la construction des identité...

When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War-- allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream-...

Olofsson makes his debut in English with this volume drawn from five books published in his native Sweden. His poems walk the tightrope between intellect and the desires of elemental existence, transmitting a sense of being fully alive in the present moment. In addition to his work as a poet, has translated Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' into Swedish and is a critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Durrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret his works. In his critical approach to Durrenmatt, Timo Tiusanen emphasizes the author's relation to the theater, and analyzes the thirteen original stage plays, eight radio plays, and five adaptations, using the special concept of "scenic image" developed in an earlier study of O'Neill. Four books by Durrenmatt on the theater and politics are related to the dramatist's creativ...

A famous, disillusioned novelist living in self-imposed exile on Corsica is commissioned by a wealthy English family to write a book about its dead son. Reluctantly, he is drawn into an adventure that sends him jetting to England, Provence, and Singapore to interview principals in the case.

A masterpiece of modern drama, The Seagull dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.

Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Ouroboros is a chapbook of poetry by Aase Berg presented in Swedish, English, and Chinese. Ouroboros is also available, along with the chapbooks of other internationally renowned poets, in Islands or Continents (Eighteen-volume Set). Selected poems from this volume are featured in the anthology Islands or Continents: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013.

From the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella “that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality” (TIME). • Ehrengard is Now a Netflix Film. “Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious asce...

When "Alt for Norge" was first published in Oslo in 1975, a chorus of praise went up from critics in Pal Espolin Johnson's native country. It contained "the joy and art of storytelling at its best," one said. This novel about the fishing folk who live on an island off the northern coast of Norway is Johnson's own favorite of his works to date, and it is the first to be translated into English, by Conrad Royksund, who perfectly catches its eloquent simplicity.In the tiny village of Mostad, squeez...