The Marriage Feast
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This collection of stories written over a period of more than thirty shows the deep seriousness and astonishing versatility of Par Lagerkvist's imagination. From the commonplace charm of the title story, to the searing futuristic satire of "The Children's Campaign, " to the disquieting fantasy of "The Lift That Went Down to Hell, " we see that Lagerkvist admits no settled boundaries between fact and fable. In this he is a poet for whom fantasy permeates the actual and "reality" can take on the dimensions of the fabulous. Life is, to him, a system of dark paradoxes; but there is also the good -- &quo
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Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
Release date: 1 January 1973
ISBN-10 : 0809067862 | ISBN-13: 9780809067862
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Release date: 1 January 1973
ISBN-10 : 0809067862 | ISBN-13: 9780809067862
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