![]() ![]() More precisely, it is an anti-epic: heroic connotations are inappropriate for a work better described as an elegiac song cycle working variations on the disappearance of the human species, a premonitory mourning ritual for Earth" - Geoffrey O'Brien, The New York Review of Books (.) Aniara is an epic of extinction, conceived at a moment when extinction had become to seem not only possible but perhaps imminent. "The more recent translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg is more faithful to Martinson's formal schemes and is said to be more accurate and somewhat more complete, but the MacDiarmid-Schubert version is more persuasive as English poetry. ![]() Aniara was made into a film, directed by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja (2018)ī : odd piece of work, but has its moments.Aniara was made into an opera, music by Karl-Birger Blomdahl and libretto by Erik Lindegren (1959).Previously: "Adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert" (1963).Translated by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg.Swedish title: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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