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The Wandering Pine : Life as a Novel

What was it about Hjoggbole, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Elysees apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man.

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  • "Persoonlijk relaas van de Zweedse auteur (1934-) over hoe hij zijn moeilijke jeugd en zijn alcoholisme overwon."
  • "What was it about Hjoggbole, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Elysees apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man."@en
  • "Von einem, der als Sohn einer strenggläubigen Volksschullehrerin in einem Dorf in Schweden aufwuchs und zu einem der angesehensten europäischen Schriftsteller wurde. Per Olov Enquist erzählt seine Lebensgeschichte, als ob es die eines anderen wäre: Er studierte in Uppsala, erlebte die RAF-Zeit in West-Berlin, schrieb in München als Journalist über die Olympiade und debütierte mit seinem ersten Theaterstück am Broadway in New York. "Wenn alles so gut ging, wie konnte es dann so schlimm werden?" - steht als Leitfrage über Enquists Biografie, die auch tief in die Alkoholabhängigkeit und an den Rand des Todes führte. Ein außergewöhnliches Buch, das sich liest wie ein zeitgenössischer Roman."
  • "Le parcours, du grand nord de la Suède jusqu'aux grandes villes fondamentales de l'histoire de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, à la fois étonnant et tragique, d'un garçon, tôt orphelin de père et élevé par une mère institutrice très rigoriste. Dans ce roman, faussement autobiographique, l'auteur considère les moments forts de sa vie d'écrivain et d'intellectuel.--[Memento]."
  • "Von einem, der als Sohn einer strenggläubigen Volksschullehrerin in einem Dorf in Schweden aufwuchs und zu einem der angesehensten europäischen Schriftsteller wurde. Per Olov Enquist erzählt seine Lebensgeschichte, als ob es die eines anderen wäre: Er studierte in Uppsala, erlebte die RAF-Zeit in West-Berlin, schrieb in München als Journalist über die Olympiade und debütierte mit seinem ersten Theaterstück am Broadway in New York. 'Wenn alles so gut ging, wie konnte es dann so schlimm werden?' - steht als Leitfrage über Enquists Biografie, die auch tief in die Alkoholabhängigkeit und an den Rand des Todes führte. Ein aussergewöhnliches Buch, das sich liest wie ein zeitgenössischer Roman."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Autobiographie"
  • "Autobiographie"@sv
  • "Autobiographie (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Biography"
  • "Autobiographical reminiscences"
  • "Autobiografické vzpomínky"

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  • "The Wandering Pine : Life as a Novel"@en
  • "The wandering pine : life as a novel"@en
  • "The wandering pine : life as a novel"
  • "Un'altra vita"@it
  • "Un'altra vita"
  • "Jiný život"
  • "Een ander leven"
  • "Une autre vie : récit"
  • "Ein anderes Leben"
  • "Et andet liv"@da
  • "Une autre vie"
  • "Et andet liv : roman"@da
  • "Une autre vie récit"
  • "Otra vida"@es
  • "Otra vida"
  • "Ett annat liv"@sv
  • "Ett annat liv"

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