Lars Gustafsson: 7 books

Book cover of Forays into Swedish Poetry
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterära Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, “What makes a good poem?” Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer. The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of...
Book cover of Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Lars Gustafsson

by Lars Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015

Swedish-English bilingual ebook edition. Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson is one of Europe’s leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship between personal experience and self-awareness, imbued with a philosophically...
Book cover of Smile of the Midsummer Night

Smile of the Midsummer Night

A Picture of Sweden

by Lars Gustafsson, Agneta Blomqvist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

In Smile of the Midsummer Night, best-selling author Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist present a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the far South, their journey takes them up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to Laponian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is...
Book cover of La ricetta del dottor Wasser
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 22, 2017

«Io sono un vincente», dichiara il dottor Wasser dall’alto della sua onorata carriera come dirigente sanitario e luminare dei disturbi del sonno, nonché incallito Don Giovanni e campione di ogni concorso, quiz e gioco enigmistico. Con lo humour scanzonato del vecchio saggio, che sa ormai affrontare...
Book cover of L'uomo sulla bicicletta blu
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2015

Corre l’anno 1953, il mondo sfreccia verso la modernità mentre Janne Friberg pedala con fatica sulla sua bicicletta blu attraverso strade di campagna deserte, cercando invano di vendere porta a porta un avveniristico quanto pesante robot da cucina Elektrolux. Il tramonto è vicino quando raggiunge...
Book cover of The Death of a Beekeeper: Novel
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1981

The celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring. Told through the journals...
Book cover of Le bianche braccia della Signora Sorgedahl
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2012

E se non fossi mai esistito? si chiede un ex professore di filosofia a Oxford, che come uno sciamano ha imparato a liberare l’anima dal corpo per viaggiare indietro nel tempo e scoprire il sottile confine tra memoria e sogno. Forse è per questo che tutti i ricordi lo riportano a un anno, il 1954,...
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