Agnar Mykle

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Agnar Mykle, 1956

Agnar Mykle (born August 8, 1915 in Trondheim , † January 14, 1994 in Asker ) was a Norwegian writer . He was pioneering in the socially critical literature of his country.

Life

After a childhood marked by illnesses, Mykle attended the commercial high school in Trondheim, where he graduated in 1935. Shortly afterwards he became an assistant teacher at this school and then head of a similar school in Kirkenes. In 1939 he went to the Norwegian Business School in Bergen to begin his studies. Although it quickly became clear that his interests were going in other directions, he successfully completed his studies.

In the 1940s he worked as a journalist for the labor movement . His first book in 1948 was a collection of short stories. His novels "Love is a lonely thing", "The Song of the Red Ruby" and "Rubicon" have strong autobiographical traits and are considered milestones in Norwegian literature.

“The Song of the Red Ruby” brought him a court case in 1957, which caused a sensation. He was charged with distributing pornographic and immoral writings. In Germany, selling and passing on to minors was banned. Although Mykle was eventually acquitted, the allegations, which were perceived as inaccurate, marked him for the rest of his life, which he spent in strict seclusion. Until his death he published very little.

1959 bought Mykle an old farmhouse in Asker , he translocated and has since lived with his family.

It was not until 1993 that he made himself available again to discussions with an employee of his publishing house, which later appeared as a book.

His passion was music. He played in marching bands and bands. He also loved puppet theater, which he wrote a book about with his wife Jane.

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His works are in the tradition of realism and depict detailed, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes humorous, always deeply looking people of his time in their often confused social and psychological situations. He relentlessly describes sexual needs, compulsions and their consequences in particular. He felt an immense dependence of man on woman, in which many readers found themselves. His advocacy of the abolition of social taboos on sexual matters had a major impact on the change in sexual attitudes in Scandinavia in the 1950s and 60s. In the current reception, his novels were blamed for misogyny and the trivialization of rape.

The novels "The Song of the Red Ruby" and "Love is a lonely thing" were sold half a million times by the end of the 1950s. His novels were translated into English and German and were widely distributed, including in the USA.

Mykle also advocated the language form Riksmål , in which he also wrote a lot.

Catalog raisonné

Novels

  • Tyven, tyven you shall hete. 1951
    • dt. Like a thief in the night. Translated by Albrecht Leonhardt, Ewald Skulima, Heidelberg 1962.
  • Lasso rounds fru Luna. 1954
  • Sang om den røde rubin. 1956
    • dt. The song of the red ruby. Translated by Ewald Skulima, Heidelberg 1958, and Ulrich Sonnenberg, Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 2019.
  • Rubicon. 1965
  • Dukketeater. 1954
  • Mine bøker er musikk: møter med Agnar Mykle

Novellas

  • Tauntigen. 1948
  • Jeg he like glad sa gutten. 1952
  • Kors på halsen. 1958
    • dt. A flower in the buttonhole. Translated by Albrecht Leonhardt, Ewald Skulima, Heidelberg 1960.
  • Largo. 1967

Published posthumously:

  • Men from Atlantis. 1997
  • En flodhest på parnasset. 1998
  • Old and disk. 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: No harmless errors. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mykle, Agnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Trondheim
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1994
Place of death Asker