البديل

by Selma Lagerlöf, سكينة إبراهيم (Translator ), Maj Fagerberg (Illustrator )

Genres: Classics, Short Stories, Swedish Literature, Magical Realism

14 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.

Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.

As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published. As her writer career progressed she would keep up a correspondance with some of her former female collegues for almost her entire life.

Lagerlöf never married and was almost certainly a lesbian (she never officially stated that she was, but most later researchers believe this to be the case). For many years her constant companion was fellow writer Sophie Elkan, with whom she traveled to Italy and the Middle East. Her visit to Palestine and a colony of Christians there, would inspire her to write Jerusalem, her story of Swedish farmers converting into a evangelical Christian group and travelling to "The American Colony" in Jerusalem.

Lagerlöf was involved in both women issues as well as politics. She would among other things help the Jewish writer Nelly Sachs to come to Sweden and donated her Nobel medal to the Finnish war effort against the Soviet union.

Outside of Sweden she's perhaps most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).

Reviews

[Pernilla (ett_eget_rum) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trevlig liten saga med moralisk slutkläm.

[Tyra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intressant, och väldigt mysig. Tyvärr inte min favorit av Lagerlöf.

[Elin Saari-Bladmyr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw a theater based on this novel that was so good that i wanted to read the novel. I was however a bit disappointed because it was so short and in the theater they had added characters and story line such as a myrling and the whole trollfamily.

[Anton Hellsten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tack Maria s toner

Grymt mysig novell. Väldigt kort, väldigt lätt, väldigt tacksam att läsa. Temat var "va snäll", som verkar simpelt men det överraskar mig hur ofta principen "va snäll" inte hålls. Tre stjärnor är kanske att ta i men det går inte att vinna över ett till fem stjärnor systemet.

[Camilla Andersson · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Jud Tirawiyeh · Rating 4 out of 5]

the good person is the one who win at the last of the battle , it is all about treating other like you wanna be treated.

[Brickan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Läste den i skolan i åttan men jag ville läsa om den

[Lena · Rating 3 out of 5]

På temat: Allt vad I viljen att människorna skola göra Eder, det skolen I ock göra dem.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 *

[Coki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Så fin och sorgesam.

[Ulrica Kulturladyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Så fin - Selma hon kan skriva hon.

[Ket(◍•ᴗ•◍) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trevlig

[Fredrik Jörgensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Härligt kort novell med tydligt budskap.

[#mimmiläser · Rating 3 out of 5]

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