SOURCE: Schwab, Gweneth B. “Herod and Barabbas: Lagerkvist and the Long Search.” Scandinavica 20, no. 1 (May 1981): 75-85.
In the following essay, Schwab asserts that in his novels Barabbas and Herod and Mariamne Lagerkvist “depicts mankind with reference to one of the most significant events in religious history and reveals the same turmoil, confusion, and incompleteness that has always defined man.”
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