Vilhelm Moberg Bücher
20. August 1898 – 8. August 1973
Vilhelm Moberg war ein schwedischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem für seine Romane über schwedische Auswanderer nach Amerika bekannt wurde. Seine Werke zeichneten sich durch ein tiefes Interesse an schwedischer Geschichte und gesellschaftlichen Fragen aus, wobei er keine Angst hatte, die Monarchie, Bürokratie und Korruption zu kritisieren. Moberg war auch als leidenschaftlicher Debattierer bekannt, der sich an öffentlichen Diskussionen beteiligte und sich entschieden gegen totalitäre Regime stellte. Sein literarischer Stil wurde für seine Authentizität und seine Fähigkeit, menschliche Schicksale im historischen Kontext darzustellen, geschätzt.
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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.The second book in the series, Unto a Good Land opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County.The other books in the series— The Emigrants (I), The Settlers (III), and The Last Letter Home (IV)—are also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Last Letter Home
- 283 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
A revealing and entertaining account of Sweden's past - now in paperback!
