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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 Toibin
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 *
A writer of uncommon urgency and power -- Siri Hustvedt
A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... The novel absorbs the reader effortlessly... The landscape round Stockholm, with its fog-bound flatlands and grey winter seas, is vividly evoked. This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading * Evening Standard *
This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today * Guardian *

A Moth to a Flame

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    A Paperback / softback by Stig Dagerman, Benjamin Miers-Cruz, Siri Hustvedt

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 5 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9780241400739
      978-0241400739
      ISBN-10 0241400732

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      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 Toibin
      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 *
      A writer of uncommon urgency and power -- Siri Hustvedt
      A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... The novel absorbs the reader effortlessly... The landscape round Stockholm, with its fog-bound flatlands and grey winter seas, is vividly evoked. This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading * Evening Standard *
      This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today * Guardian *

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