Per Olov Enquist. Lewis resa.

From: World Literature Today | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Paterson, Anna | Copyright information

Stockholm. Norstedt. 2001. 598 pages 270 kr. ISBN 91-1-300967-2

LEWIS RESA (LEWI'S JOURNEY) is a huge book in both its novelistic scope and its historical span, a grandiose gesture by a grand old man of Swedish letters. It is also an exercise in literary risk-taking, new in the events he focuses upon if not entirely in his sweeping intent. Per Olov Enquist has attempted to synthesize the novelist's intense interest in the personal with analyses of political and religious...

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