...then I understood that the improbable is what actually happens and that there are so very many prejudices about the truth.
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...then I understood that the improbable is what actually happens and that there are so very many prejudices about the truth.
Torgny Lindgren
Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion -how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?
Torgny Lindgren, In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer
...they die and are resurrected...
“I lack the disposition for realism . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people and placed them in reasonably realistic surroundings where they can live realistic lives, they start to fiddle about, they behave as if they had never before been in contact with real life, but had only lived in a fantasy world. They commit frightful crimes, they die and are resurrected, they ascend to heaven and allow themselves to be misled into all the foolishness the language happens to lead them to, till at last, with oaths and curses, they escape from the planned novel.”
― Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 - 16 March 2017) R.I.P.
➳ About ‘Hash’ by Torgny Lindgren > theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview14
I lack the disposition for realism… . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people and placed them in reasonably realistic surroundings where they can live realistic lives, they start to fiddle about, they behave as if they had never before been in contact with real life, but had only lived in a fantasy world. They commit frightful crimes, they die and are resurrected, they ascend to heaven and allow themselves to be misled into all the foolishness the language happens to lead them to, till at last, with oaths and curses, they escape from the planned novel
Torgny Lindgren
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Nenávidieť si vlastného brata, veď je to ako bratovražda! Nenávisť je veľmi silná emócia. Niekedy môže mať takú silu, že dokáže udržať pri živote aj človeka, ktorý má roky smrť na jazyku. V príbehu švédskeho spisovateľa Torgnyho Lindgrena, ovenčeného množstvom literárnych cien, sa o tom presvedčíme. Iba že by to nebola nenávisť, ale láska. Bratská láska, ktorá sa zmenila na niečo iné, no…
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Berättelserna
av Torgny Lindgren
Föreställ dig att du sakta börjat göra kväll, du har skrubbat gaddarna, släckt lamporna, druckit ett glas vatten, låst ytterdörren och ställt väckarklockan. Nu ligger du nerbäddad i sängen och din dag har varit helt okej, kanske till och med ganska bra? Bredvid sängen ligger en pocketbok med en samling noveller. Varje novell är bra. En del noveller är jättebra. Du väljer en novell och du kastas oftast in i en berättelse som utspelar sig i norra Västerbotten, men i vissa fall kan du hamna någon annanstans. Det spelar ingen roll. För även om dessa berättelser är uppdiktade så känns det snarare som att få lyssna på någon finljuga om hur det var och hur det verkligen ligger till. Vardagens lunk kan i sig vara enbart stånk och stön, men återberättas på ett sätt att den känns som en vacker tavla, eller övernaturlig och magisk. En novell är lagom lång för att vagga dig till sömns.
Precis innan du somnar in tänker du att visst vore livet lite bättre om det hängde hatmotiverade väggbonader överallt i din bostad?
Torgny Lindgren
Suddenly.. it became so clear to him that the dead matter is not dead. It was at that time he became an artist.
Torgny Lindgren (VIA ‘Klingsor’)