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Archives
- “Wedding Worries and Other Upsets”
- In Defense of the Politics of the Impossible – The Case of World Citizens for Peace
- Do We Have Faith in Humanity?
- Per Wästberg, Swedish Academy Chair, on Stig
- For One Day A Year, Let’s Make Believe….
- On Seeking And Offering Refuge
- CRITIC’S BEST BOOK PICK 2014: Dagerman’s Short Fiction
- To Stig’s Memory Nov 4, 2014
- Self Deception In A BURNT CHILD
- Stig Into Turkish
- Meeting Stig
- Reading A BURNT CHILD
- In the Forest of Paradoxes
- Island of the Doomed Reviewed
- Reading ISLAND OF THE DOOMED
- Writer’s Role: To Build Bridges And Break Glass
- To Dialogue with Dagerman
- Anita on Stig
- Stig’s Christmas Message
- “Somehow the door to my life is locked …
- Should we care when guilty people suffer?
- “She came to the farm and bore me … and then vanished.”
- “I seek consolation as a hunter tracking prey”
Tag Archives: Stig Dagerman
On Seeking And Offering Refuge
Flykten valde oss Fågeln väljer flykten. Vi valde den icke. Flykten valde oss. Därför är vi här. Ni som ej blev valda – men ändå frihet äger, hjälp oss att bära den tunga flykt vi bär! Bojan väljer foten. Vi … Continue reading
CRITIC’S BEST BOOK PICK 2014: Dagerman’s Short Fiction
Swedish book critic Stina Otterberg picks NATTENS LEKAR Collected short fiction by Stig Dagerman, preface by Colm Toíbín (Norstedts, 2014). DN.se 12/13/14 DAGERMAN’S RESISTANCE OFFERS CONSOLATION Review (excerpt translated by Lo Dagerman), DN.se 12/6/14 In these days of Nazi-flavored racism … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McDermott, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Colm Toibin, German Autumn, Nattens lekar, short fiction, Sleet, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Steven Hartman, Stig Dagerman, Stina Otterberg, The Emperor of Lies, The Games of Night, The Snake, Thousand Years with God, To Kill A Child, Where's My Icelandic Sweater?
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To Stig’s Memory Nov 4, 2014
by Lo Dagerman – preface to Chilean Mar y Tierra’s anniversary publication. Everything significant that I experience, all that fills my life with a sense of wonder—meeting with a lover, a caress on my skin, help in distress, eyes reflecting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Camus, Christina Olivier, freedom, Mar y Terra, Nuestra necesidad de consuelo es insaciable, our need for consolation, our need for consolation is insatiable, Sisyphus, Stellan Skarsgard, Stig Dagerman, suicidal ideation, tetes raides, writer's block
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Anita on Stig
I got to know Stig in 1947 when his first drama The Condemned was being staged at the Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. He actively participated in rehearsals and spent a lot of time at the theater and we, who rehearsed … Continue reading
Should we care when guilty people suffer?
“…we have to protect the value of ….respect for the individual even when the individual has forfeited our sympathy and compassion … to protect the capacity to feel in the face of suffering whether that suffering may be deserved or … Continue reading
“She came to the farm and bore me … and then vanished.”
October 5 – Stig’s birthday. A hectic day on his paternal grandparents’ small farm, because it was in the middle of the potato harvest. And here was this girl from one of the towns up north, pregnant by one of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Child's Memoirs, Dagerman, Stig Dagerman, The Games of Night
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