title: An intellectual’s life strategies in the time of war and under dictatorship in the novels by Eyvind Johnson
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metadata.value: Lisovskaya, Polina
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:29:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:29:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Lisovskaya P. A. An intellectual’s life strategies in the time of war and under dictatorship in the novels by Eyvind Johnson. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 111–126.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37459
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metadata.value: The article examines conceptual and artistic issues of the most seminal novels written
  by Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976), one of the most renowned Swedish writers of the
  20th century. Johnson, born in the north of Sweden, was of low origin, and he started
  his career as an amateur proletarian writer, a typical representative of the Swedish “proletarian
  literature,” a movement that was largely instrumental in shaping the form and
  substance of prose fiction in Sweden in the first half of the last century. His obligatory
  education ended at the age of fourteen, but his insatiable yearning for self-education,
  books, foreign languages, as well as his broad and hard-earned experience, gradually
  made him one of the most erudite and intellectually intricate Swedish novelists of the
  last century. From the 1940s on, the writer had gone far beyond the borders of “proletarian
  literature” and created works that won him international acclaim and the Nobel
  Prize for literature in 1974. Yet, the works of this humanitarian writer, who kept condemning
  totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, are practically unknown in our country,
  in translations of his novels and research papers. This article analyzes the cycles
  on Ulof and Krilon, which are devoted to Sweden, and written after the Second World
  War: the novels The Surge of the Shores, Dreams of Roses and Fire, and The Days of His
  Grace are based on subjects of the classical literature and the events of the European history. The object of our study is protagonists in the above-mentioned works. The subject
  of the research is the evolution of the types and images of humanitarian intellectuals
  in their clashes with authoritarian power, dictatorship and war. The article focuses
  on characters who, when placed in such condition, have to make up their minds and
  choose a life strategy which would conform with Johnson’s ethical and philosophical
  position, and on the evolution of describing circumstances and results of these choices
  throughout the whole life of the writer.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eyvind Johnson
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: proletarian literature in Sweden
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical metanovel
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anarchic syndicalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Second World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Charlemagne/ Charles the Great
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cardinal Richelieu
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Winston Churchill
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: An intellectual’s life strategies in the time of war and under dictatorship in the novels by Eyvind Johnson
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metadata.value: Article
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