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A Moth To A Flame

by Stig Dagerman
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, September of 2019 ‧
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In a working-class neighbourhood in 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother's memory, but he soon finds himself drawn into a fevered and forbidden affair with the very woman he set out to destroy...

Written in a taut, restrained style, A Moth to a Flame is an intense exploration of heartache and fury, desperation and illicit passion. Set against a backdrop of the moody streets of Stockholm and the Hitchcockian shadows in the woods and waters of Sweden's remote islands, this is a psychological masterpiece by one of Sweden's greatest writers. "A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times"
Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction

«Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion»
Graham Greene

«Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence»
Colm Toibin

«There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of this type is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman»
Times Literary Supplement

A Moth To A Flame

by Stig Dagerman

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241400739
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: September of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 12 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 224
Format: Book
Collection: Penguin European Writers
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9780241400739

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stig Dagerman

Uma inquietação visceral assombrou a vida de Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), saudado precocemente como um «Rimbaud do Norte», um «Camus sueco» e um jovem prodígio das letras nórdicas. Esta insidiosa angústia assolava-o desde a sua Älvkarleby natal, onde a mãe o abandonara em tenra idade, acompanhou-o nos meios anarquistas de Estocolmo, na intensa atividade de jornalista, e culminaria no seu suicídio aos 31 anos. Autor de culto, tido por símbolo de uma desiludida geração do pós-guerra, escreveu em quatro anos toda a sua obra, pontuada pelo desespero de Franz Kafka e influenciada por William Faulkner, na qual se destacam A Serpente (1945), A Ilha dos Condenados (1946), Outono Alemão (1947) e Jogos da Noite (1948). Legou-nos um exemplo de lucidez e resistência à mentira, como alicerce e esteio da ação humana, e algumas das mais belas páginas sobre a falsidade das relações humanas e a angústia e a ira que as movem.

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