Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
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Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian (23 May 1891 - 11 July 1974)
The Swedish winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in literature, Lagerkvist was a philosophic naturalist. The Hangman (1933) is concerned with good, evil, and man’s search for God. Lagerkvist is an unbeliever who, although preoccupied with the plight of unbelievers, states Ingwersen, “turns a reassuring myth around to show the ludicrousness of its promise." The novel, Barabbas (1950), may be, in fact, the ultimate characterization of the unbeliever who cannot transcend his own belief.”
(See letter from Walter Gustafson. Also, see entry for Scandinavian Unbelievers.)
