{"product_id":"9781870041959-the-people-of-hemsoe","title":"Strindberg August - The People Of Hemsoe - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912, Sweden's internationally recognised dramatist was an astonishingly prolific all - rounder. The new National Edition of his works will run to seventy - two volumes: he was a writer of novels short stories essays journalism and satire he experimented with early photography and in recent years his paintings have achieved the recognition they deserve. His novel The People of Hems (1887) will come as a surprise to most English - language readers used as they are to seeing the bitter controversialist of plays like The Father and Miss Julie or the seeker for cosmic meaning and reconciliation of those mysterious later dream plays To Damascus and A Dream Play'. This novel a tragicomic story of lust love and death among the fishermen and farmers of the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago reveals a very different Strindberg. The vigour and humour of the narration as well as its cinematic qualities are such that we witness a great series of peopled panoramas in which place and time and character are somehow simultaneously specific and archetypical and we leave the novel with memories of grand landscapes and spirited scenes. In a recent essay Ludvig Rasmusson wrote: For me The People of Hems is the Great Swedish Novel just as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the Great American Novel'. His comparison is an apt one: if the Mississippi becomes the quintessence of America the island of Hems and the archipelago become the quintessence of Sweden.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The People Of Hemsoe\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Strindberg August\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Norvik Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781870041959\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 164 Pages, Black \u0026amp; White Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/8\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Strindberg August","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626021822769,"sku":"IN-G-9781870041959","price":19.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781870041959.jpg?v=1724910399","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781870041959-the-people-of-hemsoe","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}