A Burnt Child

Author : Stig Dagerman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816687013
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Burnt Child written by Stig Dagerman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the international success of his collection of World War II newspaper articles, German Autumn—a book that solidified his status as the most promising and exciting writer in Sweden—Stig Dagerman was sent to France with an assignment to produce more in this journalistic style. But he could not write the much-awaited follow-up. Instead, he holed up in a small French village and in the summer of 1948 created what would be his most personal, poignant, and shocking novel: A Burnt Child. Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, the story revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers his father had a mistress. But as Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother’s memory, he also finds himself drawn into a fevered and conflicted relationship with this woman—a turn that causes him to question his previous faith in morality, virtue, and fidelity. Written in a taut and beautifully naturalistic tone, Dagerman illuminates the rich atmospheres of Bengt’s life, both internal and eternal: from his heartache and fury to the moody streets of Stockholm and the Hitchcockian shadows of tension and threat in the woods and waters of Sweden’s remote islands. A Burnt Child remains Dagerman’s most widely read novel, both in Sweden and worldwide, and is one of the crowning works of his short but celebrated career.

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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burnt Child written by and published by . This book was released on 185? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book The burnt child written by Burnt child and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Kloefkorn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803218727
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoring the Burnt Child written by William Kloefkorn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring the Burnt Child is the second volume in William Kloefkorn’s four-part memoir, which will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Negotiating the no man’s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy’s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his poetry, he describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie’s Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters who made up his family. From the “firefly” stunt that nearly burns down his home to the distant firestorms of World War II, fire presents an endless range of subtle and surprising lessons for the boy, whose impressions Kloefkorn conveys with the immediacy, naiveté, and poignancy of youth—and reconsiders with the wisdom and distance of age. Restoring the Burnt Child powerfully brings to life the lost, unforgettable world of a boy, and of a poet, coming of age in midcentury middle America. Chosen as a 2008 One Book, One Nebraska selection, this Bison Books edition is updated with a set of discussion questions.

Author : Jason Draper
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148973855X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Burnt Child written by Jason Draper and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiring men have, do, and will continue to take advantage of each other because of our humanity, and history shows the worst offenders are not those who claim to do us any harm, but those who claim they are trying to do us good. The solution is not to cancel our goodness. The cure is not to have less of any of these good things. The cure is to balance it with more knowledge and more truth. Whatever “truth” is given by our churches, governments, and the media, can be measured by passing it through the fire. If it survives, we can accept it. If it doesn't, we can choose not to be burned again. It doesn't deserve our humanity and can and ought to perish.

Author : Burnt Child
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781011370160
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burnt Child written by Burnt Child and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Shereen Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781761670
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Burnt Child written by Shereen Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a lifetime of political activism in South Africa, Yazz thinks she's finally content with her quiet London life. She doesn't expect the reappearance of Lily, the best friend and comrade who betrayed her. Nor does she expect Lily's demand: to help her find a child long dead in a township fire. Reluctant to open old wounds, Yazz refuses to indulge her treacherous friend's tragic fantasy, but can't stop herself being increasingly drawn into the tangled web of her old world. As the past begins to bleed into her new life and her allegiances are torn, Yazz realises that all she holds dear is once again at stake.

Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
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Download or read book The Burnt Child : an Autobiography written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Skone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107652324
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Critically Ill Child written by Richard Skone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, user-friendly guide to the management of sick children, written by experienced paediatric emergency physicians and anaesthetists.

Author : Stig Dagerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780241400739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Moth to a Flame written by Stig Dagerman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction 'A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading' Evening Standard In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother's memory, but he soon finds himself drawn into a fevered and forbidden affair with the very woman he set out to destroy . . . Written in a taut, restrained style, A Moth to a Flame is an intense exploration of heartache and fury, desperation and illicit passion. Set against a backdrop of the moody streets of Stockholm and the Hitchcockian shadows in the woods and waters of Sweden's remote islands, this is a psychological masterpiece by one of Sweden's greatest writers. 'Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion' Graham Greene 'Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence' Colm Tóibín 'There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of this type is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman' Times Literary Supplement 'This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today' Guardian