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The Swedish
John Cowper Powys Society
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Newsletter no. 11 – Autumn meeting by Håkan Stockhaus The members
of the Swedish John Cowper Powys Society were invited to meet the writer
Gunnar Lundin, Saturday the 30th of August, at the Valand
Café at the Surbrunnsgatan/Sveavägen
crossing, Stockholm. The subject was Wolf Solent. The novel, written in the
beginning of the Thirties, was to be the breakthrough for John Cowper Powys
as novelist. The fact that Powys later, in the beginning of the Fifties, was
nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, is no coincidence. Gunnar told that this
remarkable novel, translated into Swedish by Sven Erik Täckmark, takes a grip
on the reader and forces you to return to the novel, over and over. The power of it seems to enchant old
readers as well as new generations. It is continually reprinted in new
editions. Universal and filled with suspense it touches us at an existential
level, and its many facettes makes it vital and
dynamic. In the end it is a novel of relations where the protagonist is woven
into the mythologies that condition the being and the experience of being human. A vivacious debate arose
soon after Gunnar's exciting guidance to Powys' Wolf Solent. Is it really
possible to end/start in a better way? |
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updated 4 April 2012.