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Pietà
Vad handlar denna bok egentligen om? Om självmördare, om Holocaust eller om poeter?
Nej, jag tror egentligen inte att boken handlar om dessa ämnen. De har valts för att ställa kärnfrågan, människans situation, på sin spets. Vi möter vårt största dilemma nar vi nalkas det bottenlösa ordet pietà – ett ord som ingen har lyckats översätta till något annat språk så att det har kunnat behålla sina nyanser och associationer.
Lidelsefullt söker Georg Klein svar på sina frågor utifrån sitt eget livs erfarenheter och sina naturvetenskapliga kunskaper men också med hjälp av en rad författare och poeter som talat djupt och starkt till honom.
Nej, jag tror egentligen inte att boken handlar om dessa ämnen. De har valts för att ställa kärnfrågan, människans situation, på sin spets. Vi möter vårt största dilemma nar vi nalkas det bottenlösa ordet pietà – ett ord som ingen har lyckats översätta till något annat språk så att det har kunnat behålla sina nyanser och associationer.
Lidelsefullt söker Georg Klein svar på sina frågor utifrån sitt eget livs erfarenheter och sina naturvetenskapliga kunskaper men också med hjälp av en rad författare och poeter som talat djupt och starkt till honom.
296 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
About the author
George Klein
10 books3 followersGeorge Klein, Georg Klein or Klein György (July 28, 1925) was a Hungarian-Swedish biologist who specialized in cancer research. Klein had also authored a dozen of non-scientific or wide ranging books, of which several are collections of essays.
Klein started a tumor biology center at Karolinska Institute and made a connection there between the Epstein-Barr virus and lymphomas and other cancers. He was awarded the $100,000 prize by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for pioneering work on cancer and the human immunity system.
Apart from his scientific work, he had written popular books of which three have been translated to English: The Atheist and the Holy City (1990) (Swedish: Ateisten och den heliga staden), Pietà (1992), a collection of essays on whether life is worth living, and Live Now (1997).
Since settling in Sweden in 1947, Klein has spelled his surname Georg in Swedish and George in English.
Klein started a tumor biology center at Karolinska Institute and made a connection there between the Epstein-Barr virus and lymphomas and other cancers. He was awarded the $100,000 prize by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for pioneering work on cancer and the human immunity system.
Apart from his scientific work, he had written popular books of which three have been translated to English: The Atheist and the Holy City (1990) (Swedish: Ateisten och den heliga staden), Pietà (1992), a collection of essays on whether life is worth living, and Live Now (1997).
Since settling in Sweden in 1947, Klein has spelled his surname Georg in Swedish and George in English.
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July 23, 2013
George Klein's follow-up to Pieta is, like the earlier book, a collection of essays that are reflections on the life experience of a scientist and doctor with a profound connection to art and spirit. There is a great essay about the poet Attila Jozsef, as well as reminiscences about famous colleagues and about friendships that ended in tragedy, all deeply influenced by the author's experiences as a sensitive youth of Jewish family, growing up in prewar Hungary. Again, an atheist shows that he has a deep understanding of what real spirituality is--"the criticism of life."
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