Stenen i sjön Rottnen

by Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöfs legende om stenen i søen er en smuk beretning om næstekærlighed og barmhjertighed. Den bringer bud om håb - selv i den mørkeste tid. Denne julelegende har ikke tidligere været oversat til dansk.

Genres: Short Stories, Classics

48 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1914

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

[Karin Pontoppidan | Karins booktok · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,75✨ Lucka 4 i Novellix adventskalender

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Det här är vad man kan vänta sig av Lagerlöf. Jag gillar hennes berättarstil.

Denna lilla novell handlar om en hjälppräst som under nödår faktiskt tar sig an mer än man kan tänka sig. Det händer även en hel del runtomkring.

Jag rekommenderar den varmt.

[Emelie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am really tempted to give it a 5. There is nothing super special about it, but it managed to inflict me with a certain type of feeling within 30 pages and Selma Lagerlöfs writing is just beyond reproach.

[Matilda Lind · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fin läsning! Nu välkomnar vi julen!!! Hade gärna läst om den nästa år.

[Elina Purmonen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rätt fin ändå när det väl kom omkring… med ett slut jag inte riktigt väntade mig.