Lagerkvist

American  

[lah-guhr-kvist] / ˈlɑ gərˌkvɪst /

noun

1. Pär 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.

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Lagerkvist British  

/ ˈlɑːɡərkvist /

noun

1. Pär ( Fabian ) (pæːr). 1891–1974, Swedish novelist and dramatist. His works include the novels The Dwarf (1944) and Barabbas (1950): Nobel prize for literature 1951

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"God's" answer is the answer of Sweden's Par Lagerkvist in his story The Eternal Smile.

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But Lagerkvist does picture him in two final scenes.

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Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist, it nevertheless commanded respect.

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But his best novel, Barabbas, now published in the U.S., sounds as though Author Lagerkvist has never lost a deep preoccupation with, faith.

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Today, after half a century of novels, plays, stories and poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951, Lagerkvist is still obsessed with God, still a believing unbeliever.

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