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  <name><![CDATA[Pär Lagerkvist]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 &quot;for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind.&quot;]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Barabbas]]>
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    <![CDATA[Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. &quot;Christos Iesus&quot; is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, &quot;I want to believe.&quot;--Translated from Swedish by Alan Blair]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Dwarf]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves.  They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.&quot;  Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel <em>The Dwarf</em> is an exploration of individual and social identity.  The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf PIccoline.  From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege.  Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1941</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Sibyl]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the meaning of his disastrous brush with the son of God. She reveals that she, too, has been touched by the son of a god, a very different son, not quite human, born of her own body. He dwells with her as a constant reminder of the betrayal of her mystical and erotic union with the divine, her punishment, and&#151;perhaps&#151;her redemption.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1957</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Eternal Smile]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1954</published>
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  </authors>  <published>1968</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Death of Ahasuerus]]>
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    <![CDATA[Pilgrim at Sea]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Holy Land]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Marriage Feast]]>
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    <![CDATA[This collection of stories written over a period of more than thirty shows the deep seriousness and astonishing versatility of Par Lagerkvist's imagination. From the commonplace charm of the title story, to the searing futuristic satire of &quot;The Children's Campaign, &quot; to the disquieting fantasy of &quot;The Lift That Went Down to Hell, &quot; we see that Lagerkvist admits no settled boundaries between fact and fable. In this he is a poet for whom fantasy permeates the actual and &quot;reality&quot; can take on the dimensions of the fabulous. Life is, to him, a system of dark paradoxes; but there is also the good -- &quot;a quiet, everyday radiance that mankind always had difficulty noticing and setting a value on.&quot;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1973</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Guest of Reality and Other Stories]]>
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