The Swedish author Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was concerned with the meaning of life in a world without God and the existence of good and evil in such a world. Leif Sjöberg, in Pär Lagerkvist summarized the man: "Pär...
The position of Pär Lagerkvist as one of the leading Swedish writers of the twentieth century has long been assured. In a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, Lagerkvist displayed a remarkable versatility in his writing. His mastery...
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (May 23, 1891 – July 11, 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his...
AJCongress focuses on fighting 'human shields' It happened repeatedly during the 2006 Lebanon War: A terrorist launches a missile from a civilian neighborhood in southern Lebanon. When Israel retaliates, the terrorist is gone, but civilians are killed or injured. The Jewish state is...
Because of Debbi Wilgoren's Feb. 2 front-page article, "Exercises in Frustration at P.R. Harris," the school has been unfairly singled out as an example of everything that is wrong in the city's public school system. While we share the same problems as any other...
In the following essay, Polet discusses how Lagerkvist's characters mirror his own search for eternal peace and the Kingdom of God, by exploring the connection between social order and freedom and the deepest questions of what he called “human destiny.”
