Synopses & Reviews
The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright.
NIGHT OF THE TRIBADES (1975) centres around the triangular relationship between August Strindberg, the actress Marie Caroline David and Siri von Essen. It has been translated into twenty languages including a short run on Broadway. THE IMAGE MAKERS (1998) deals with Selma Lagerlof's father and his alcoholism whilst THE RAIN MAKERS is a fascinating study of Hans Christian Anderson. THE HOUR OF THE LYNX: "Enquist's play, feelingly translated from the Swedish offers a profound exploration of spirituality, love and faith within a text that is grippingly dramatic, unfailingly absorbing and often upliftingly lyrical."
"At a time when young writers were looking for new forms of literary expression, Enquist settled for an investigative style, and attempt to reconstruct events reported to have happened, but where the truth is often too inaccessible? it was a style that was to remain Enquist's literary landmark characterising both his novels and his plays" Contemporary World Authors ed. Tracey Chevalier
Synopsis
This is the first collection of plays by the acclaimed Swedish playwright and novelist. Enquist's plays are gripping explorations of love and faith, and the circumstances that complicate relationships between great men and women.
Per Olov Enquist became famous in the 1960s with novels such as The Magnetist's Fifth Winter and Hess. His novel The Royal Physician's Wifewas shortlisted for the 2003 IMPAC award.
Synopsis
Per Olov Enquist was born in 1934 in Sweden, and his plays have been produced across Europe. The Night of the Tribades, first produced in the UK at Hampstead Theatre in 1978, is set during a rehearsal for Strindberg's play The Stronger and offers a fascinating insight into the relationship between Strindberg's life and art. In Rain Snakes (1981), the storyteller Hans Christian Anderson and famous Danish actress Heiberg mercilessly strip each other of hidden secrets. The Hour of the Lynx (1981) is an examination of guilt and the search for redemption of a young boy killer. In The Image Makers (1998), originally directed by Ingmar Bergman, Enquist dramatizes the fictional meeting between the Swedish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Selma Lagerlöf, and three other artists making the film of her classic novel, The Coachman of Death.
This volume contains translations by Gunilla Anderman, Charlotte Barslund, and Kim Dambæk.
Synopsis
First collection of plays by internationally acclaimed Swedish writer.
About the Author
Per Olov Enquist was born in Sweden and grew to fame through widely translated novels such as THE MAGNETIST'S FIFTH WINTER, HESS, and LEGIONARERA. Widley known as a playwright, novelist and author of travel fiction, his novel THE ROYAL PHYSICIAN'S VISIT was shortlisted for this year's IMPAC award.