Can anyone recommend to me Swedish literature? I have been studying the language for months now and I think it's time to make something of it.
Thank you.
>>7612547
>""""literature"""" in any European language aside from English, German, Russian, and the Romances
Yeah, no. This hasn't existed for over 800 years.
>>7612547
all i know is strinberg and detective novels
>>7612547
Read the Millenium trilogy, really good books. I've only read the second one (kek) but I really enjoyed it. Inb4 it's not highbrow enough for /lit/
>>7612610
And also, Swedish crime/police novels and shows are the best in the world (along with Denmark and Norway I'm sure). Especially if you are North American, the ones here are a farce in comparison.
Hjalmar Söderberg
Pär Lagerkvist
August Strindberg
Frans G. Bengtsson
Gunnar Ekelöf (poetry)
Selma Lagerlöf
Harry Martinsson
Personal favourite is Söderberg and Lagerkvist.
>>7612547
Tranströmer is God tier.
>>7612547
>I have been studying the language for months now
Hello Ahmed.
>>7612653
Hi :)
>>7612627
Absolutely. I read him in Dutch though, but the dutch translator is said to have done a wonderful job though
>>7612622
Also, Söderberg has some GOAT short stories that might be good for learners not wanting to invest themselves into full length novels.
>>7612688
>Fänrik ståls sägner
Isn't that Finnish?
>>7612718
Originally written in swedish about an epoch in swedish history
>>7612547
Start with this edgelord. He rapes a 9 year old girl at Gröna Lund, and is offered to sleep next to the youngest fertile girl in a Georgian village during his travels there.
>>7612547
I like Erik Lindegren
>>7612688
>Äldreomsorgen i övre kågedalen
This book reads like it was made for chaners. There's an English translation called Assisted Living and the author is called Nikanor Teratologen.
>>7613589
He also wrote a translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
>>7612688
>Äldreomsorgen i övre kågedalen
Seems like copies of this shit is expensive as fuck. At least my library seems to have one.
>>7613589
>>7613614
Good book desu
have a nice quote
Han va vrång på judebolsjevismen men grät otröstlit när Stalin dog 53. - ”Han gav dom jävlarna
va dom tålde”, snyfta han.
He was mad at judeobolshevism
but cried uncontrollably when Stalin died 53. - "He gave those bastards what they deserved" he cried
I really have a hard time thinking translation will do this book justice
>>7613695
>written in dialect
please god no
>>7613695
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSX4YgYkrpM
>>7613701
It's written in skelleftemål which was literally a different language about 150 years ago
as with most dialects in northern sweden
all editions are annoted tho
>>7612688
>Äldreomsorgen i övre Kågedalen
my dad likes that book
>>7613701
>not appreciating dialects
d you mean finnish literature in swedish?
>>7612816
Reading this right now. I enjoyed the story where he gets a heart transplant from a raped and murdered girl, and gradually feels himself becoming her.
