Martinson, Harry
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- Only science ficton book to receive a Nobel prize
- Wow. You know... Wow.
- strangely beautiful
- Aniara--Epic story of man's fragility and folly
- Aniara is an excellent piece of art
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Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Harry Martinson
Manufacturer: Story Line Press
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ASIN: 1885266634 |
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Only science ficton book to receive a Nobel prize.......2004-09-12
Harry Martinson's epos Aniar should rank as one of last century's most beatiful books. Written already in the fifties, but still as actual as ever. A spaceship carrying refigees from Earth to Mars. It's steering is damaged by a meteorite. Helpless, the refugees follow the spaceship out into the cold voids outside of our solar system. They die of hopelessness when they understand that twenty years of travel has only brought them a few light-days away from Earth ("A lightyear is a grave").
Martinson invented new words to describe the technology, all of them beatiful. The translation works just great.
Part of Martinson's greatness is that he saw that we were heading in the wrong direction much earlier than his contemporaries; either stuck in the "American Dream" or trapped by "Soviet Progressive" ideals. The book cn be read in so many planes: belief in technology while forgetting human values, fear of nuclear war, shallow searches for instant gratification, man's - and mankind's - loneliness in an uncaring universe.
Martinson was an apostate from communism, and he was ostracised by the Swedish intellectual establishment, and later commited suicide.
Wow. You know... Wow........2004-02-27
Aniara, by Harry Martinsson, is about a space ship which is damaged, in such a way that the people travelling with it can no longer control where they are going. This makes for a fascinating read, unlike anything you have ever read.
The main problem about Aniara is that noone can tell you what it is like, you have to see for yourself. Trying to describe Aniara is like telling you what a song sounds like whitout singing: You either get the wrong impression or don't get it at all. You have to experience it by yourself.
See that you do.
strangely beautiful.......2000-06-29
Martinson's epic poem is composed of separate episodes which form distinct and richly resonant threads in a tapestry of voices, each clearly and palpably real. The language has a range similar to that of the composer, Mahler, delving fearlessly into the plain, the sparse, even the tacky, pausing there only to soar with equal courage into the shatteringly beautiful. Suffused throughout with a combination of subtle insight and deep compassion, the work is deeply moving as only great things are. Any concern that an "epic poem" or "science fiction" are not for you should be gently set aside. Pick a starry window on a quiet night and read this book.
Aniara--Epic story of man's fragility and folly.......1999-09-07
After more than twenty years of searching for an English translation of this poem, I finally have had the great fortune to obtain a copy!
This is the 24-year story of how the 8,000 inhabitants of a doomed 'space ark' try to cope with their hopeless situation. It is a dark review of the human condition, sometimes difficult, often beautiful.
The introduction and translator's notes are a must-read. Strangely, there is no mention at all of the 'modern' opera by Karl-Birger Blohmdahl (the only true 'space opera'?) which is how most non-Swedes have been introduced to Aniara for many decades.
The Aniara Suite was featured as side 2 of a very rare release of the "2001..." soundtrack years ago. If still available, the 1985 Caprice 2-CD set (CAP 22016 1-2) is an excellent companion to this book.
Aniara is an excellent piece of art.......1998-12-01
This review is based on the Swedish version since the English is not yet in print at the time of writing. Aniara is a poetic tale of a spaceship with the same name. Aniara is lost in space, headed out of our solarsystem, and beyond all rescue. Experience the frustration, fear, and yearning for confort that the passangers feel, in this fantastic poem.
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- Looking More Closely at Nature's Secrets
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Views From A Tuft Of Grass (Green Integer)
Harry Martinson
Manufacturer: Green Integer
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ASIN: 1931243786 |
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Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observation of nature. He also wrote three volumes of nature essays in the 1930s. Views from a Tuft of Grass, however, was published late in his life, in 1963, and the essays of this volume reflect a maturer and cleaner style and are less philosophically dense than the earlier works.</p>
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Looking More Closely at Nature's Secrets.......2006-09-04
Coming upon Harry Martinson's VIEWS FROM A TUFT OF GRASS is a reminder of how few writers and poets have stepped out of the ordinary means of painting visual pictures with words to transcend the written page and enter the ether of the atmosphere that contains all of nature's beauty.
Harry Martinson, born in Sweden in 1904 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1974, approached such apparently routine topics - water, boating, maps, etc - in a manner that supported his thesis that reality and imagination must be intermingled in order to illustrate nature through words. Included in this inspiring little book are essays on the subject of nature writing, strongly suggesting that the use of familiar terms to describe unique moments results only in clichés. His message is to urge writers (and readers!) to heighten their sensitivity by pushing the standard limits of descriptive words into a realm that allows a stronger communication of the mysteries of the moments of nature that pass us constantly, for the most part unnoticed.
His language is simple and eloquent: 'In a sky reflected downward on a lake, the clouds whirl around like summer spirits, and as you row across this sky of water your oar dips quietly towards evening like a dark wooden spoon into the cloud-milk'. The book is translated from the Swedish by Lars Nordstrom and Erland Anderson in what seems to be a deeply sensitive manner. This brief book (only 152 pages) should be part of the library of every poet and every reader of poetry. Harry Martinson has much to offer, both in his own writings and in his advice to all of us. Grady Harp, September 06
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Hav och resor: Lyrik och prosa ur tidningar och tidskrifter
Harry Martinson
Manufacturer: Vekerum
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ASIN: 9186722298 |
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Harry Martinson
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ASIN: B000F2Z1QQ |
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Vägen Till Klockrike
Harry Martinson
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Doriderna: Eferlamnade dikter och prosastycken
Harry Martinson
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ASIN: 9100448125 |
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Wild Bouquet: Nature Poems
Harry Martinson
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ANIARA.
Harry. Martinson
Manufacturer: Hutchinson
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ASIN: B000H27P6S |
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ASIN: 9100398624 |
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- Martorell, Joanot
- Marvell, Andrew
- Massinger, Philip
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Masters, Susan Rowan
- Mathews, Harry
- Matteucci, Marie
- Maugham, W Somerset
- Maupassant, Guy De
- Maupin, Armistead
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