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Skomakarlärlingen Konstantin har inget till övers för det övernaturliga men sätter ändå ut för att hjälpa sin mästare och fånga in en tjänsteande åt denne. Men vad händer egentligen när han med gravmull i fickorna bestämmer sig för att behålla anden för sig själv?
Novellen är hämtad ur Troll och människor I (1915).
"Hade det hänt något, medan han hade stått lutad över graven? Höll de döda på att vakna? Det viskade bestämt från grav till grav. Det skymtade något vitt inne i den svarta skuggan under träden. Där stod de döda i täta klungor. De hade funnits där hela tiden. I nästa ögonblick skulle han se dem."
Novellen är hämtad ur Troll och människor I (1915).
"Hade det hänt något, medan han hade stått lutad över graven? Höll de döda på att vakna? Det viskade bestämt från grav till grav. Det skymtade något vitt inne i den svarta skuggan under träden. Där stod de döda i täta klungor. De hade funnits där hela tiden. I nästa ögonblick skulle han se dem."
27 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1911
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About the author
Selma Lagerlöf
1,341 books697 followersSelma 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).
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).
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October 10, 2015
3,5 stars
Alltså, jag gillar verkligen Selma Lagerlöf! Har läst några noveller av henne och också en bok och jag gillar det! Älskar all folktro och hennes budskap. Måste komma över fördomen jag har att hennes texter skulle vara tråkiga för det tycker jag obviously inte.
Alltså, jag gillar verkligen Selma Lagerlöf! Har läst några noveller av henne och också en bok och jag gillar det! Älskar all folktro och hennes budskap. Måste komma över fördomen jag har att hennes texter skulle vara tråkiga för det tycker jag obviously inte.
November 28, 2017
Ytterligare en liten sensmoralisk novell. Den som gapar efter mycket mister ofta hela stycket. Ett förmanande finger om att vara girig och självisk och inte dela med sig. Jantelagen paketerad i en kort liten julsaga för alla att begrunda!
August 15, 2015
Here you can read my review in Swedish: http://jennyjag.wordpress.com/2013/12...
March 26, 2014
Another good story from a good story teller!
August 10, 2016
Doesn't fulfill its promise entirely as a literary piece, doesn't entirely fulfill its promise as a horror story. Wasn't great. Wasn't bad.
June 28, 2020
Lyssnade på "ljudbok" versionen läst av Kristina Thörnqvist på dramaten.se.
January 3, 2021
I denna novellen är Selma Lagerlöf i sitt esse. Den är välskriven, spännande, innehåller onaturliga fenomen och skrock, samt ett viktigt budskap. Att ha tur är inte detsamma som att vara lycklig.
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