by Eyvind Johnson · Plaza & Janés Edito · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401301681
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«Era el año 1914. Aquí tienes tu vida» is the novel by Eyvind Johnson, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
Autobiographical novel following Olof, a twelve-year-old boy who in 1914 leaves his childhood behind to work in the summer transporting logs along the rivers of northern Sweden. There he discovers camaraderie, physical effort and death; afterwards he sets off for a brick factory, in a constant search for freedom and identity in a society of contrasts.
First volume of the series «Romanen om Olof», originally published in 1934 as «Nu var det 1914»; translation by Deerie Sariols.
For readers of European fiction and Swedish literature, especially those who appreciate the works of Nobel Prize-winning authors.
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
