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• W1537789187 abstract "The diversity of Lars Gustafsson's fiction has been noted with both esteem and bewilderment in critical reviews. This is especially true regarding the two novels of the 1980s, Sorgemusik for frimurare (Funeral Music for Freemasons) and Bernard Foys tredje rockad (Bernard Foy's Third Castling). To commemorate the author's fiftieth birthday, a number of critics and fellow-writers documented their views on Gustafsson's authorship in the Festschrift Att lasa Gustafsson; bok om Lars Gustafsson (Volz ed. 1986) [To Read Gustafsson: A Book about Lars Gustafsson]. These articles note that the author has remained faithful to his early metaphors and poetic language (Olofsson, Sjogren) while the polemic and social critical dimension of his novels creates tension and irony (Olsson, Qvale). While stressing diversity, most Gustafsson scholars fail to detect the unifying dimension in Gustafsson's oeuvre. In contrast, Gustafsson's speaking subject points to a unifying structure as it asserts itself across the complexities and fragmented plots of his works; in the process it reveals a well-defined linear development from the first novels of the 1960s to Bernard Foys tredje rockad of 1986. A subtext in the poetic structure of the works describes a natural progression similar to the mythical heroic quest and the Jungian individuation process. While the author's narratives superficially seduce the reader to become a player in his literary games, this archetypal text links the characters and the novels together into a united whole. In Gustafsson's fiction the speaking subject undertakes a pilgrimage similar to that in Dante's The Divine Comedy or in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. The speaking subject's search for his center, his identity, is a classical and unifying theme. In poetry as in prose, he voices the existential dilemma and confusion of man in our society. The sensed lack of a center, and the subsequent feeling of a horror vacui, stems from traumatic experiences in the speaking subject's adolescence. This is emphatically expressed in the early novels Broderna [The Brothers] and Foljeslagarna [The Companions] where humiliating school incidents brand the protagonist: Och han mindes allt som hade hant i der gamla huset, lidanden, forodmjukelser, sma barn som misshandlas av en muskelstark lararinna, hartestar sore flyger i luften medan ett litet huvud kastas av och an i skolbanken av en stark och hansynslos hand (Gustafsson Foljeslagarna, 65) [And he remembered everything that had happened in the old school house, sufferings, humiliations, small children who were abused by a strong-muscled teacher, wisps of hair flying in the air as a small head is thrown to and fro by a strong and merciless hand]. In a later work, Herr Gustafsson sjalv [Mr. Gustafsson Himself] the author describes the process of writing as mitt sorgearbete [my work of grief]. The same view of writing as a means to overcome pain and grief is also explored by Gustafsson in Kristallkulan i tradgarden: vildmarken [The Crystal Ball in the Garden: The Wilderness Outside]. Here a crystal ball is first transformed into a computer terminal which undergoes further metamorphoses and becomes literature. In a similar mariner, the garden is both interpreted as the exotic unknown and the infantile regression manifesting itself in an obsessional focus on the past and the individual's childhood. The author points out that while Freud describes the pre-Oedipal stage as the lost paradise and Nietzsche introduces the superman as a future perfection of mankind, neither deals with the immediate reality in which the individual exists. In his own fiction, Gustafsson brings this reality into focus and, as his works progress, the speaking subject reflects his society from new perspectives. According to Gustafsson the role of an intellectual is to inform and to criticize society. In an interview in 1984, he comments on the author's situation in Sweden: En utlandsk iakttagare skulle val saga att det inte ar sa konstigt att forfattaren ar den som star utanfor etablissemanget och sager sanningar. …" @default.
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• W1537789187 title "In Search of an Identity: The Heroic Quest in Lars Gustafsson's Fiction, 1960-1986" @default.
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