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Hjalmar Bergman

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hjalmar Bergman , 1883-1931, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. A popular and prolific writer, Bergman wrote from the background of an unhappy childhood and chronic mental depression. His works are characterized by insight into the ambivalence of human emotions. Bergman's individual style combines a basically pessimistic view with ironic humor, as in the play Swedenhielms [the Swedenhielm family] (1925) and the novels God's Orchid (1919, tr. 1924) and The Head of the Firm (1924, tr. 1936). Bibliography: See his Four Plays (tr. 1968); study by E. H. Linder (1975).... Read more

Bergman, Hjalmar Frederik
Bergman, Hjalmar Frederik (1883–1931), Swedish dramatist and novelist, one of the most influential in the Swedish theatre after the death of Strindberg , who, with Maeterlinck and Ibsen , had a great influence on Bergman's early work. He first came into prominence with two one-act ‘Marionette ... Read more

Swedish literature
...Twentieth Century In the early 20th cent. the fiction of Hjalmar Söderberg presaged a renewed emphasis on restraint and realism...and sustained Swedish expressionism, as did the novelist Hjalmar Bergman and the poet Birger Sjöberg. Modernism, with its emphasis... Read more

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	(book reviews) ; Hjalmar Bergman. Trans. Hanna Kalter Weiss. Columbia...House, 1995. Pp. i-ii + 190. $49.95. Hjalmar Bergman's Clownen Jac (1930) is certainly a...translation is workmanlike, but some of Hjalmar Bergman's light irony is lost. The translation... Read more
	An Excerpt from The Girl in Tails ; ...Translation Prize THE SWEDISH WRITER HJALMAR BERGMAN HAS MERGED the two Bergslagen towns...Continuous studies and commentaries of Bergman's works testify to his place among...has been translated into English. Bergman and his wife Stina traveled widely... Read more
	Memoirs of a Dead Man ; Memoirs of a Dead Man By Hjalmar Bergman Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith Norvik Press, Norwich, England/Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, 2007 352... Read more
	DEATHS.(News) ; BANGSUND: Norman A., 88, of Shoreline, Aug. 9. BERGMAN: Sally A., 63, of Kenmore, Aug. 8. BOLDUC: Gregory J., 48...12. DAVIES: Cathryn C., 86, of Seattle, Aug. 1. ENSELMAN: Hjalmar J., 79, of Shoreline, Aug. 9. FITZGERALD: Gracie L., 8, of... Read more
	Ulla Isaksson. Swedish author ; ...Ulla Isaksson, who wrote the manuscripts for two Ingmar Bergman movies and was honored for her writings about women's issues...reported. Isaksson was the author of the manuscripts for the Bergman- directed films "The Virgin Spring" (1960) and "Brink of...and "The Book About E," which was about her husband, Erik ... Read more
	For Lovers of Human Drama, Ibsen's `Wild Duck' Fills Bill ; ...you love the films of Ingmar Bergman, with their dense webs of troubled...by Larry Hart) and his son, Hjalmar (Kendall Marlowe, properly...newcomer Amy E. Warren), who Hjalmar has raised and loved, believing...of its unknown origins. When Hjalmar rejects Hedvig, she is devastated... Read more
	The silver age of Swedish national romanticism, 1905-1920. ; ...von Heidenstam, and Albert Engstrom lived on until 1940, Hjalmar Soderberg and Karl-Erik Forsslund until 1941, Wilhelm Peterson-Berg...own ways, aspects of the national romantic tradition: Bo Bergman, Henning Berger, Hjalmar Bergman, Anders Osterling, Hugo Alfven, Carl Wilhelmson, Carl Eldh... Read more
	(book review) ; ...course through other examples of aging, from such Swedish classics as Sven Lidman's Huset med de gamla froknarna and Hjalmar Bergman's Farmor och Var Herre, through Thomas Mann's Tod in Venedig and Lotte in Weimar, through Doris Lessing and John... Read more
	DEATHS ELSEWHERE ; ...Ulla Isaksson, 83, who wrote the manuscripts for the Ingmar Bergman-directed films "The Virgin Spring" (1960) and "Brink of Life...and "The Book About E," which was about her husband, Erik Hjalmar Linder, who died in 1994. She and her husband wrote a two-part... Read more
	Obituary: Ulla Isaksson ; ...Meanwhile, she had collaborated with the great film director Ingmar Bergman on Nara Livet (So Close to Life, 1958), adapted from one of...was married to the author, critic and literary historian Erik Hjalmar Linder, who collaborated with his wife in researching and writing... Read more

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