Stories of Happy People Pa
What is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafsson's Stories of Happy People is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. Uncle Sven and the Cultural Revolution finds a politically indifferent Swedish research engineer, in Mao's China as an industrial consultant, surprised by his own imagination. The Four Railroads of Iserlohn lead to poignant, illusionary journeyings. The half-felt yearnings of displaced intellectuals, trying to break out of the stasis of their existence, are explored in The Art of Surviving November, What Does Not Kill Us,…
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Weitere Autoren: Weinstock, John (Übers.) / Sandstroem, Yvonne L. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-0978-6
- EAN: 9780811209786
- Produktnummer: 2797080
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.0 cm 159 g
- Gewicht: 159
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Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden's leading and most prolific poets.
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