Pär Lagerkvist (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Though he is known primarily for the full-length novels that began appearing near the end of World War II, Pär Lagerkvist has also achieved great recognition in Scandinavia for his numerous short stories, novellas, poems, and plays. Little of this early work is available in translation. Lagerkvist’s short fiction and miscellaneous prose have been collected in Prosa I-V (1956). Some of the pieces in this work have appeared in translation in The Eternal Smile and Other Stories (1954), The Marriage Feast and Other Stories (1955), and...
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