The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , · Lars Gustafsson was a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. He completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in He lived in Austin, Texas until , and has recently returned to Sweden/5. In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring. Told through the journals of this schoolteacher turned apiarist, The Death of a Beekeeper, is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. Westin has refused to surrender the time left him to the impersonation of a hospital, preferring to take his fate Cited by: 3.
The death of a beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson, , Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Corp. edition, in English. By reading and analyzing a contemporary novel, The Death of a Beekeeper by the Swedish author Lars Gustafsson (), this article is an attempt to explore to which extent a fictional narrative about a unique case of cancer may illuminate challenges associated with the experience of serious illness. Our claim is that medicine might draw wisdom. Harold Bloom includes Gustafsson in The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (, p. ). The Death of a Beekeeper, published in , is Gustafsson's best-known novel. John Updike praised it as "a beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse." Ia Dübois has called it "one of his greatest works.".
Lars Gustafsson was a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. He completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in He lived in Austin, Texas until , and has recently returned to Sweden. In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring. Told through the journals of this schoolteacher turned apiarist, The Death of a Beekeeper, is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. Westin has refused to surrender the time left him to the impersonation of a hospital, preferring to take his fate upon himself, to continue solitary, reflective life in the Swedish countryside. Translation: Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper (with Guntram Weber). Afterword by J. Swaffar. New York: New Directions,
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