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19 de ago. de 2014 · In Sleet, Dagerman’s most recent collection of short stories translated by Steven Hartman, melancholia threatens to derail whatever victories, large or small, are won. Knut, an alcoholic womanizer rejected by his prudish and striving family, rambles boozily through the last story in the collection, “Where’s My Icelandic Sweater?”
31 de jul. de 2013 · A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion.”―Graham Greene This collection includes a number of new translations, never before published in English, unified by the theme ...
This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories never before published in English, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Often narrated from a child's...
Selected Stories. by Stig Dagerman. Translated by Steven Hartman. Preface by Alice McDermott. $17.95 USD. Format. Softcover. Add to cart. Product Details. Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation.
31 de jul. de 2013 · Stig Dagerman's fearless, moving stories should be placed alongside the short fiction of such luminaries as James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver. You'll find yourself holding your breath in wonder as you read, grateful to Dagerman (and Steven Hartman) for the gift of these stories.
2013, Sleet: Selected Stories by Stig Dagerman. The volume includes 12 Stories, all of them new translations, a number of them never before published in English. This selection of Dagerman's stories is unified by a central theme: the death of innocence.
31 de jul. de 2013 · This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories never before published in English, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Often narrated from a child's perspective, the stories give voice to childhood's tender state of receptiveness and joy tinged with longing and loneliness.
