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Died. Pär Lagerkvist, 83, titan of Swedish literature and 1951 Nobel laureate; following a stroke; in Stockholm. The rebellious son of devout Lutheran peasants, Lagerkvist was enchanted with the Fauvist and Cubist artists of pre-World War I Paris. After experimenting with expressionism in a host of early, pessimistic poems and plays, Lagerkvist, who described himself as "a religious atheist," later developed the starker, more realistic prose style necessary to his vision of humanitarian idealism. In the U.S., he was best known for The Dwarf (1945), a bitter, allegorical novel about human greed, and Barabbas (1951), an enigmatic...
PILGRIM AT SEA by Par Lagerkvist. 116 pages. Random House...
Swedish Novelist Par Lagerkvist may be a little too much at sea himself. His mystical message does not differ much from the amoralism of a Robert Ruark or a Mickey Spillane. But since it comes from a Nobel prizewinner and is dressed up in the proper symbolism, it has already been hailed in Europe as the last word in existentialism...
Barabbas. Anthony Quinn stars as the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross. Christopher Fry's dramatization of Par Lagerkvist's novel is filled with vigor as well as religious insight...
Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Pär Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and is played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn...