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Swedish writer ()

Pär Lagerkvist
Lagerkvist in
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.

Biography and works

Lagerkvist was born in Växjö (Småland).

Biography examples: Pär Lagerkvist (born May 23, , Växjö, Sweden—died July 11, , Stockholm) was a novelist, poet, dramatist, and one of the major Swedish literary figures of the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in

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 he broke away from Christian beliefs, but, unlike many other writers and thinkers in his generation, he did not become vehemently critical of religious beliefs as such.

Though he was politically a socialist for most of his life, he never indulged in the idea that "religion is the opium of the people". Much of his writing is informed by a lifelong interest in man and his symbols and gods, and in the position of Man (both as individual and mankind) in a world where the Divine is no longer present, no longer speaking.^{[citation needed]}

In his early years Lagerkvist supported modernist and aesthetically radical views, as shown by his manifesto Ordkonst och bildkonst (Word Art and Picture Art, ) and the play Den Svåra Stunden ("The Difficult Hour").^[1]

One of the author's earliest works is Ångest (Anguish, ), a violent and disillusioned collection of poems.

Biography in a sentence Lagerkvist wrote poems , plays, novels , stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. Among his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as the man who was freed instead of Jesus , Barabbas, and the wandering Jew Ahasuerus. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of the Church. His most popular work, Barabbas , follows the life of the convicted killer after he is released in favor of Jesus of Nazareth , who is crucified in his place. Barabbas is unable to understand neither Jesus nor his disciples as Lagerkvist was unable to reconcile his knowledge of human nature, depicted in Barabbas, with the explanations and theories of the Church.

His anguish was derived from his fear of death, the World War, and personal crisis. He tried to explore how a person can find a meaningful life in a world where a war can kill millions for very little reason. "Anguish, anguish is my heritage / the wound of my throat / the cry of my heart in the world." ("Anguish", ) "Love is nothing.

Anguish is everything / the anguish of living." ("Love is nothing", ) This pessimism, however, slowly faded, as testified by his subsequent works, Det eviga leendet (The Eternal Smile, ), the autobiographical novel Gäst hos verkligheten (Guest of Reality, ) and the prose monologue Det besegrade livet (The defeated Life, ), in which the faith in man is predominant.

From The Eternal Smile on, his style largely abandoned the expressionist pathos and brusque effects of his early works and there was a strong striving for simplicity, classical precision and clean telling, sometimes appearing close to naivism. The content, however, was never truly naive. A Swedish critic remarked that "Lagerkvist and John the Evangelist are two masters at expressing profound things with a highly restricted choice of words".

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Ten years after Ångest, Lagerkvist married for the second time, a union which was to provide a pillar of safety in his life until the death of his wife forty years later. Hjärtats sånger (Songs of the Heart) () appeared at this time, bearing witness to his pride and love for his consort.

This collection is much less desperate in its tone than Ångest, and established him as one of the foremost Swedish poets of his generation. ^{[citation needed]}

His prose novellaBödeln ("The Hangman", ), later adapted for the stage (The Hangman, ; play, ), shows his growing concern with the totalitarianism and brutality that began to sweep across Europe in the years prior to World War II.

Nazism was one of the main targets of the work and Der Stürmer responded with a very dismissive review.

Par lagerkvist biography meaning 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. 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 he broke away from Christian beliefs, but, unlike many other writers and thinkers in his generation, he did not become vehemently critical of religious beliefs as such.

Criticism against Fascism is also present in the play Mannen utan själ (The Man Without a Soul, ).

In September Lagerkvist was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Verner von Heidenstam on chair 8 in December the same year.^[2]

Lagerkvist's novel Dvärgen (The Dwarf), a searching, ironic tale about evil, was the first to bring him positive international attention outside of the Nordic countries.

The work was followed in by the unusual, lyrical play Låt människan leva (Let Man Live).

Barabbas (), which was immediately hailed as a literary masterpiece (by fellow Nobel laureate André Gide, among others) is probably Lagerkvist's most famous work.

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The novel is based on a Biblical story. Jesus of Nazareth was sentenced to die by the Roman authorities immediately before the Jewish Passover, when it was customary for the Romans to release someone convicted of a capital offense. When the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate offers to free either Jesus or Barabbas (a convicted thief and murderer), a Jerusalem mob demands the release of Barabbas, who later watches Jesus as he bears the cross to Golgotha, witnesses the crucifixion, and then spends the rest of his life trying to understand why he was chosen to live rather than Jesus.

A movie based upon the novel was filmed in , with Anthony Quinn playing the title role.

In Pär Lagerkvist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind.".^[3] He had first been proposed for the prize in ^[4] Following the publication of Barabbas, Lagerkvist had been one of the favourites to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ^[5] In the Nobel committee for literature received nine nominations for Lagerkvist, including nominations from the French authors and previous laureates André Gide and Roger Martin du Gard, and the Swedish Academy decided to award him the prize.^[4]

Lagerkvist died in Stockholm in at the age of 83, his wife having died in

Works

Short Story Collections

• Människor (People) ()
• Två sagor om livet (2 Tales of Life) ()
• Järn och människor (Iron and People) ()
• Det eviga leendet (The Eternal Smile) () - 3 stories
• Onda sagor (Wicked Tales) ()
• Kämpande ande (Fighting Spirit) ()
• I den tiden (In the Terms) ()

Novels

• Gäst hos verkligheten (Guest of Reality) ()
• Den svåra resan (The Difficult Journey) (written c.
  Par lagerkvist biography meaning in english Persistently he came out as a nonbeliever, yet always with other possibilities open. His father, a railroad employee, refused to join his trade union because he believed that it contradicted God's established order. Despite his parents' devout beliefs and daily readings from the bible at home, Lagerkvist developed an alternative view of religion at a tender age, becoming in his own words, "a believer without faith, a religious atheist. Darwin's Origin of Species profoundly influenced the young group; Lagerkvist later wrote that it disturbed, "the very foundation of the transcendental view of the world. Between and Lagerkvist studied the history of art at the University of Uppsala, but he was not satisfied and turned to writing.

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• Själarnas maskerad (The Masquerade of Souls) ()
• Bödeln (The Executioner) ()
• Dvärgen (The Dwarf) ()
• Barabbas (, filmed in , , and )
• Sibyllan (The Sibyl) ()
• Ahasverus död (The Death of Ahasuerus) ()
• Pilgrim på havet (Pilgrim on the Sea) ()
• Det heliga landet (The Holy Land) ()
• Mariamne ()

Prose and poetry

• Ordkonst och bildkonst ()
• Motiv ()
• Ångest ()
• Kaos ()
• Den lyckliges väg ()
• Hjärtats sånger ()
• Det besegrade livet ()
• Vid lägereld ()
• Den knutna näven ("The Clenched Fist", )
• Genius ()
• Den befriade människan ()
• Sång och strid ()
• Hemmet och stjärnan ()
• Aftonland ("Evening Land", )
• Antecknat (diaries and notes, )

Theatre

• Sista mänskan, play ("The Last Man", )
• Den svåra stunden, three one-act plays ("The Difficult Hour", )
• Teater ()
• Himlens hemlighet, play ("The Secret of Heaven", )
• Den osynlige, play ("The Invisible One", )
• Han som fick leva om sitt liv, play ("The Man Who Lived his Life Over", )
• Konungen, play ("The King", )
• Bödeln, play ("The Hangman", )
• Mannen utan själ, play ("The Man Without a Soul", )
• Seger i mörkret, play ("Victory in the Dark", )
• Midsommardröm i fattighuset, play ("Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse", )
• De vises sten, play ("The Philosopher's Stone", )
• Låt människan leva, play ("Let Man Live", )

English translations

• "Literary Art and Pictorial Art" [Ordkonst och bildkonst], Rainbow Press, , ISBN&#;
• "The Dwarf" [Dvärgen], Hill and Wang, , ISBN&#;
• "Barabbas", Vintage, , ISBN&#;X.
• "The Sibyl" [Sibyllan], Vintage, , ISBN&#;
• "The Death of Ahasuerus" [Ahasverus död], Vintage, , ISBN&#;
• "Evening Land" [Aftonland], translated by W.

  H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg; Wayne State University Press, ; Souvenir Press, London, , ISBN&#;

References

• Fulvio Ferrari, introduction to Italian edition of Gäst hos verkligheten and Det eviga leendet, Oscar Narrativa #, Mondadori, Milan, June
• Everett M.

  Ellestad, "Lagerkvist and Cubism: A Study of Theory and Practice," Scandinavian Studies 45 (1/), S. 38–

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