Stig Dagerman

[NickAdams]

After learning about this author three years ago, I quickly ordered his books (books are extremely hard to find). I haven't read any of the books yet, but curious if anybody else has.

[stlukesguild]

Nick;

I thought I had Dagerman's first novel, The Snake... but it appears I lost it somewhere over the years. I do still have his collection of short stories, The Games of the Night (published by Quartet Encounters, a British publisher). I still remember rather strongly by reaction to two of the stories, "To Kill a Child" and "A Thousand Years with the Lord". I notice you have J.L. Borges listed as one of your favorite writers (he's definitely among my favorite within the Modernists). You should definitely like dagerman as well. His works have a dark Kafkaesque-Borghesian quality to them that is not without a goodly ammount of the absurd and the darkly comic.

[NickAdams]

Nick;

I thought I had Dagerman's first novel, The Snake... but it appears I lost it somewhere over the years. I do still have his collection of short stories, The Games of the Night (published by Quartet Encounters, a British publisher). I still remember rather strongly by reaction to two of the stories, "To Kill a Child" and "A Thousand Years with the Lord". I notice you have J.L. Borges listed as one of your favorite writers (he's definitely among my favorite within the Modernists). You should definitely like dagerman as well. His works have a dark Kafkaesque-Borghesian quality to them that is not without a goodly ammount of the absurd and the darkly comic.

Can you believe that I haven't read any of the books yet; time is indeed a tragedy to the reader. When I'm 65 years old and facing Erikson's final crisis, I will regret not having read more.