Name: Grönt te (in Swedish)
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Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9789187619281

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Illustrated by

Nicolas Krizan

Epilogue by

Sven Christer Swahn

Publisher

Aleph Bokforlag

Year

2020

Language

Swedish

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9789187619281

Edition No.

0003

Synopsis "Grönt te (in Swedish)"

I Sverige är Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) mest känd för sin långa novell Carmilla, som stadfäste den litterära vampyrmyten som den sedan behandlades i Dracula. Le Fanu var en produktiv författare av historiska romaner och mysterieberättelser, men sitt kanske största inflytande hade han som spök- och skräckförfattare.Grönt te är på flera sätt en betydande klassiker. I denna långnovell från 1869 utvecklar Le Fanu den psykologiska rysaren i arvet efter Edgar Allan Poe.En engelsk pastor blir förföljd av en liten svart, ilsken apa som bara han kan se -- kanske en hallucination, kanske inte. Händelserna tar lugnt avstamp i den trygga viktorianska vardagen men dras långsamt in i "helvetets enorma maskineri", för att använda pastorns egna ord.Huvudperson i Grönt te är den tyske läkaren dr Martin Hesselius -- världslitteraturens första ockulta detektiv. Här utges novellen för första gången på svenska.Om Le Fanu, Grönt te och ockulta detektiver skriver konnässören Sven Christer Swahn i sitt efterord. Boken är illustrerad av Nicolas Krizan.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer born on August 28, 1814 in Dublin, and who died on February 7, 1873 in the same city. He is best known for his mystery and horror stories. Coming from a family of Huguenot origin, his father was a pastor in various Protestant localities. Joseph studied Law at Trinity College, where he was appointed auditor of the University's History Society. He never practiced law, dedicating himself to journalism. In 1838, he began publishing stories in the Dublin University Magazine; and from 1940 he took control of several newspapers. In 1844, he married Susanna Bennett, with whom he had four children. Gradually, he became involved in politics due to his campaign against the British government's indifference to the Irish famine, but his personal life was complicated due to his wife's illness, who suffered from anxiety attacks and an advanced neurosis that apparently cost her life in 1858. Le Fanu stopped writing, tormented by the death of his wife, and did not do so again until the death of his mother in 1861, supported by his cousin, Lady Gifford, with whom he maintained correspondence until her death. Upon becoming the owner of the Dublin University Magazine, he took the opportunity to publish his novels in serial form in this magazine. Although due to the demands of editors and his readers he wrote stories and novels following the British fashions of the time, in his last stories he returned to Irish folklore as a source of inspiration.

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