Nattens lekar är den enda novellsamling som Stig Dagerman själv ställt samman och består av sjutton korta berättelser om människor som förenas av sin ensamhet.Boken innehåller novellerna "Nattens lekar", "Bon soir", "Snöblandat regn", "Saltkött
Stig Dagerman debuterade tjugotvå år gammal med romanen Ormen. Året var 1945 och den möttes av en förbluffad kritikerkår. "Så våldsamt övertygande har ingen svensk författare i detta sekel debuterat", skrev Olof Lagercrantz i DN. Med sina egna o
Dagerman's novel penetrates the dark regions of the soul and is a haunting, powerful allegory about the state of modern man. It's potent themes include the existentialist argument over meaning and reality, and the confrontation of political ideals represe
Depuis la découverte, en 1981, de ce texte où Stig Dagerman, avant de sombrer dans le silence et de se donner la mort, fait une ultime démonstration des pouvoirs secrètement accordés à son écriture, le succès ne s'est jamais démenti.On peut donc,
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignm
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront of Swedish letters, with critics comparing him to William Fa
The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stal
Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affir
