A Burnt Child
A young man experiences inner turmoil and rage following the death of his mother. He falls in love with his father’s mistress, and they start an illicit relation.
Dagerman conceived the story while struggling with a journalistic assignment in France. He wrote the novel, he said “isolating himself in a locked room in a sleepy French village with a continent between the author and those he had betrayed.”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) is one of the most prominent authors among the Swedish “Fyrtiotalisterna” (writers of the 1940s). He made his debut in 1945 with the novel The Snake which was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet prize for literature. He is best known as a writer of prose, with Island of the Doomed, 1946, A Burnt Child, 1947 and Wedding Worries, 1949, but…
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A young man experiences inner turmoil and rage following the death of his mother. He falls in love with his father’s mistress, and they start an illicit relation.
Dagerman conceived the story while struggling with a journalistic assignment in France. He wrote the novel, he said “isolating himself in a locked room in a sleepy French village with a continent between the author and those he had betrayed.”
