Spring 2000
8.1

The following is the Table of Contents from the Spring 2000 edition of Metamorphoses, a special issue on Swedish Literature.
The complete edition, including the original language versions for the poetry, is available only  in print.

 

EDITORIAL and INTRODUCTION

 
  THALIA PANDIRI From the Editor in Chief 8
  EVA CLAESON Editorial Notes 11
  GEORGE SCHOOLFIELD Introduction 13


FICTION and OTHER PROSE

 
  OVE ALLANSSON The Mutineer
Translated from the Swedish by Leif Sjöberg
20

  TORGNY LINDGREN Honey from the Bumblebee
Introduced and translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
39

  SARA LIDMAN The Bear Girl
Commentary by Leif Sjöberg
Translated from the Swedish by Leif Sjoberg and StePHen Klass
49


  STEPHEN KLASS On Translating Sara Lidman 63
  VERNE MOBERG Kristina Lugn 71
  HAROLD GASKI Essay: Sami Literature
Translated from the Swedish by Roland Thorstensson
84

 

POETRY

 
  ESAIAS TEGNÉR Kannik 98
  VIKTOR RYDBERG The Wood Siren 100
  GUSTAF FRÖDING The Good Old Days
Vennerbom, the Poet
Translated from the Swedish by Juditch Moffett
104
106

  HARRY MARTINSON Excerpts from Aniara
Translated from the Swedish by Leif Sjöberg and Stephen Klass
110

  SOLVEIG VON SCHOULTZ 13 Poems from The Cloud Shadow
Translated from the Swedish by Brita Stendahl
130

  CARINA KARLSSON Excerpts from Lisbeta, Per Skarp's Wife
Introduced by Susan Brantly
Translated by Maria Carlstedt, Katarina Tucker, Erica Wick, and Anna Mandell
140


  SONJA ÅKESSON Yes, Please
Safe and Secure
What I Would Like To Do (Have)
Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson
156
156
158

  GÖRAN SONNEVI Excerpts from Mozart's Third Brain, sections:
V
XII
XV
Excerpt from The Book of Sounds
Introduced and translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser

168
170
172
174

 

REFLECTIONS

 
  SONJA ÅKESSON The Delightful Sixties
Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson
178

  MARGARETA EKSTRÖM Excerpts from: About Nature at Stora Skuggan
Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson
184

  OLOF LAGERCRANTZ From: On The Art of Reading and Writing
Translated from the Swedish by Sissela Bok
192

  HEIDI VON BORN Aspects of Swedish Literature in the year 2000: A Stroll through the Swedish Book Forest - Some Resting Places 203

 

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