6 books by Par Lagerkvist
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Overview: PÄR LAGERKVIST (1891-1974) was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "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." Lagerkvist’s central themes include the problem of man’s relation to God and the fundamental questions of good and evil.
Genre: Fiction > Literature
The Sibyl (.ePUB / .PDF)
A powerful and poetic parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the meaning of his disastrous brush with the son of God.
The Death of Abasuerus (.PDF)
Set during the age of medieval pilgrimages, the pilgrim Tobias, bound for the Holy Land, joins company with a mysterious stranger who travels with a woman known as Diana. The stranger is Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, who denied Jesus a moment of respite and was condemned to eternal life, and who stands in for modern man in his ambivalence toward Christ and his ultimate rejection of God.
Pilgrim at Sea (.PDF)
The novel opens aboard the pirate ship in which Tobias, passenger and pilgrim, and still hoping to reach the Holy Land, comes to know Giovanni, a pirate and unfrocked priest who lost his faith over his passion for a woman. The novels ends with Tobias and Giovanni still at sea, and the Holy Land a seemingly impossible goal.
The Holy Land (.PDF)
Tobias and Giovanni are cast ashore on a bleak coast, where they find shelter in the ruins of an ancient temple, and where their only companions are herdsmen. Tobias, the eternal wanderer, pursues a god in whose existence he cannot believe, and in the end the search becomes his belief, the answer within himself; Giovanni resists a god in whose existence he cannot really disbelieve. By such diverse approaches do both discover a kind of peace.
Herod and Mariamne (.PDF)
Lagerkvist’s final novel makes use of a symbolic constellation that appears often in his books: here the brutal, power-sick Herod and his wife Mariamne, whom he must kill when he realizes he can never understand the love she represents.
The Marriage Feast & Other Stories (.PDF)
Nineteen short stories in which there is no settled frontier between fact and fable, and where fantasy permeates the actual and "reality" can take on the dimensions of the fabulous.
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