Island of the doomed / Stig Dagerman ; foreword by J. M. G. Le Clzio ; translated by Laurie Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagerman, Stig, 1923-1954.

Contributor:

Thompson, Laurie.

Standardized Title:

Dömdas ö. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic literature.

Germanic fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg's small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed . This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country's brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of fiction-a haunting tale that oscillates around seven castaways as they await their inevitable death on a desert island populated by blind gulls and hordes of iguanas. At the center of the island is a poisonous lagoon, where a strange fish swims in circles and devours anything in its path. As we are

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword: The Star of Myself; THE CASTAWAYS; The Thirst of Dawn; The Paralysis of Morning; The Hunger of Day; The Sorrow of Sunset; The Obedience of Twilight; The Longing of Evening; The Fires of Night; THE STRUGGLE OVER THE LION

Notes:

"Originally published in Swedish as De domdas o by Norstedts, Sweden, in 1946; copyright 1946 Stig Dagerman."

ISBN:

0-8166-8043-4

OCLC:

785397888