The Death of a Beekeeper (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lars Gustafsson
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: The countryside in the Swedish province of Västmanland
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Authors or writers, Cancer, Science fiction, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Life and death, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: Sweden
Characters Discussed
Lars Lennart Westin, a retired elementary school teacher living in virtual isolation in the Swedish province of Västmanland. A lean, spent man, he is thirty-nine years old but looks much older. Intensely self-absorbed, he keeps a series of notebooks that record the mundane facts of his life, his imaginative explorations of past and present, and the course of his fatal disease, cancer of the spleen. As the novel begins, he has received a letter from a local hospital, probably containing test results and the diagnosis of his ailment. He burns the letter,...
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