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In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring. Told through the journals of this schoolteacher turned apiarist, The Death of a Beekeeper, is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. Westin has refused to surrender the time left him to the impersonation of a hospital, preferring to take his fate upon himself, to continue solitary, reflective life in the Swedish countryside. "I took little walks and noticed that in the last months the pain had actually colored the landscape in a peculiar way. Here and there is a tree where it really hurt, here and there is a fence against whose post I struck my hand in passing." His inner landscape is also re-forming: "This constant concern with an indefinite dangerous secret in one’s own body, this feeling that some dramatic change is taking place, without one’s being able to have any clarity about what really is... reminds me of prepuberty. I even recognize this gentle feeling of shame again." The relentlessly intimate burning in his gut provides a point of psychic detachment, rendering his survival "a unique art form whose level of difficulty is so high that no one exists who can practice it.” Yet he insists, "We begin again. We never give up."
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- EditoreNew Directions
- Data di pubblicazione1981
- ISBN 10 0811208095
- ISBN 13 9780811208093
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine163
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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The Death of a Beekeeper
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Rolf Harris Productions Pty, Limited, 1981
ISBN 10: 0811208095
ISBN 13: 9780811208093
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Condizione: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 6129938-20
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The Death of a Beekeeper.
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New Directions Publishing, New York, 1981
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Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), edges foxed, edge tears jacket (small edge loss, reverse side toned, flap clipped), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 163 pp. Told through the journals of a Swedish school teacher turned apiarist, this bestselling novel is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. In the beginning of the bleak winter thaw in Sweden, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through Spring. (Translated from Swedish.). Codice articolo 23283
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The Death of a Beekeeper
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Cloth Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dj has light edgewear with a couple small tears & very light soiling. Bottom corner of inside front flap of dj has been clipped. Inside hinge is creased. There are a few pages with inked underlining & notations on them. Codice articolo 11951
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The Death of a Beekeeper (English and Swedish Edition)
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New Directions, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0811208095
ISBN 13: 9780811208093
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Da: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition in English. New York: New Directions, 1981. First edition in English and first book published in English. The Death of a Beekeeper, published in 1978, is Gustafsson's best-known novel.[11] John Updike praised it as "a beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse."[12] Ia Dübois has called it "one of his greatest works."[13] Eva Stenskar has written that it "seems so effortless yet lyrical that only an artist at the height of his powers could've produced it."[14] Its main theme is the agony of disease, as it follows Vesslana beekeeper who is dying of cancerthrough entries he makes on notepads. The book's innovative structure allows Gustafsson to explore identity through its expression in a variety of forms: imagination, memory and even the mundane details of life. The book's central theme is revealed by the repeated motto of the protagonist, "We never give up. We begin anew." Gustafsson himself has described it as "A book about pain. It describes a journey into the center where pain rules and pain can tolerate no rivals." The novel was re-published in 1984 as the last in a five-novel sequence Sprickorna i muren (The Cracks in the Wall), the other volumes being Herr Gustafsson själv, Yllet, Familjefesten, and Sigismund. Previous owner gift inscription, light wear to dust jacket bottom of spine. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Size: 8vo. Codice articolo 021413
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Hardcover. Codice articolo Abebooks196393
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