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En Herrgårdssägen / Kejsaren av Portugallien
En Herrgårdssägen och Kejsaren av Portugalien är två av Selma Lagerlöfs allra mest kända och lästa berättelser. En herrgårdssägen publicerades för första gången 1899 och är det första större verk där hon helt funnit sin egenart som berättare. Kejsaren av Portugalien kom till i ett senare skede av hennes författarliv och publicerades 1914. Ändå finns det mycket som förenar de två böckerna. Både Gunnar Hede och Jan i Skrolycka blir sinnessjuka "när olyckan drabbar för svårt, när verkligheten inte kan behärskas" (orden är Sven Delblancs). Och i båda berättelserna är kärleken en helt avgörande makt, antingen den innebär den djupaste besvikelser eller kommer som helande kraft.
184 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1914
About the author
Selma Lagerlöf
1,444 books723 followersSelma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.
Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.
As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published. As her writer career progressed she would keep up a correspondance with some of her former female collegues for almost her entire life.
Lagerlöf never married and was almost certainly a lesbian (she never officially stated that she was, but most later researchers believe this to be the case). For many years her constant companion was fellow writer Sophie Elkan, with whom she traveled to Italy and the Middle East. Her visit to Palestine and a colony of Christians there, would inspire her to write Jerusalem, her story of Swedish farmers converting into a evangelical Christian group and travelling to "The American Colony" in Jerusalem.
Lagerlöf was involved in both women issues as well as politics. She would among other things help the Jewish writer Nelly Sachs to come to Sweden and donated her Nobel medal to the Finnish war effort against the Soviet union.
Outside of Sweden she's perhaps most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).
Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.
As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published. As her writer career progressed she would keep up a correspondance with some of her former female collegues for almost her entire life.
Lagerlöf never married and was almost certainly a lesbian (she never officially stated that she was, but most later researchers believe this to be the case). For many years her constant companion was fellow writer Sophie Elkan, with whom she traveled to Italy and the Middle East. Her visit to Palestine and a colony of Christians there, would inspire her to write Jerusalem, her story of Swedish farmers converting into a evangelical Christian group and travelling to "The American Colony" in Jerusalem.
Lagerlöf was involved in both women issues as well as politics. She would among other things help the Jewish writer Nelly Sachs to come to Sweden and donated her Nobel medal to the Finnish war effort against the Soviet union.
Outside of Sweden she's perhaps most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).
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July 31, 2023
EN HERRGÅRDSSÄGEN:
Åååååååå denna boken är så mysig, blev kär i den under läsningens gång. Jag kommer ihåg hur vårens blommor började komma när jag läste denna.
Inte en bok jag kanske skulle säga slår mot något djupare och definitivt inte Lagerlöfs bästa men kanske den jag har bäst minnen av. 4/5
KEJSARN AV PORTUGALIEN:
Bra jävla bok, men jag tyckte kanske att den saknade den charmen som Jerusalem eller Herrgårdssägen har.
3/5
Åååååååå denna boken är så mysig, blev kär i den under läsningens gång. Jag kommer ihåg hur vårens blommor började komma när jag läste denna.
Inte en bok jag kanske skulle säga slår mot något djupare och definitivt inte Lagerlöfs bästa men kanske den jag har bäst minnen av. 4/5
KEJSARN AV PORTUGALIEN:
Bra jävla bok, men jag tyckte kanske att den saknade den charmen som Jerusalem eller Herrgårdssägen har.
3/5
October 30, 2025
Omläsning av Kejsarn av Portugallien. Man upplever den helt annorlunda som vuxen än som ungdom!
October 15, 2017
Störde mig och tyckte boken var tråkig dom 150 (av 265) första sidorna, men efter det blev den sorglig på ett väldigt gripande sätt -> gillade den ändå. Kan inte säga så mycket annat om en klassiker på ett sätt egentligen. Hade lite svårt för att det skulle vara skrivet så som dom pratade för att visa att dom var fattiga bönder typ, men det är väl smaksak :)
September 29, 2019
En varm och gripande berättelse, omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig. Ett par tårar fällde jag också. Ja, detta är en klassiker. Kanske borde den få en femma?
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