Mans kvinna

by Vilhelm Moberg

”Hägerbäcks by är högt belägen, man skall upp för den långa, tvärbranta liden. Och gubben Herman suckar trött, när han ser hur långt han har till krönet. Halvannan mil har han bakom sig i dag, och det stycket känns i åldriga ben.” Märit är gift med bonden Påvel men egentligen älskar hon sin granne – den fattige grannbonden Håkan. Det är slutet av 1700-talet men historien inspirerades av författarens eget förhållande med Eva von Zweigbergk.

Genres: Classics

235 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism against the Hitler regime.

A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.

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