Jan Fridegård

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Jan Fridegård (born June 14, 1897 in the Enköpings-Näs parish, Enköping municipality , as Johan Fridolf "Fride" Johansson ; † September 8, 1968 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish "proletarian" writer. The background of his narrative prose was the poor and oppressive agricultural milieu from which he came. He found a sparse language, "which clearly and vividly grasps the coarse and delicate in factual expressive power".

Jan Fridegård (around 1943)

Life

The son of a semi- serf Statar graduated from elementary school, escaped from child labor at the age of 18 for three years to the mounted army, and was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for theft immediately after being demobilized. Years later, the time of the soldier entered the novel Äran och hjältarna from 1938, while Fridegård dealt with the prison experience in his trilogy about the hero with the speaking name (German) Lars Hart , published in 1935/36. It is usually understood as his main work.

In the years of privation after his release from prison (1919), Fridegård kept afloat as a factory worker, peddler and antiquarian bookseller. Sometimes he lives in a wrecked car in a junkyard on the outskirts of Stockholm . He reads Chekhov , Gorky , Jack London and Upton Sinclair with admiration . When he made his debut with a volume of poetry in 1931, he had already written articles for the left-wing magazine Feuer . His first novel appears two years later. Since he was not discouraged by the initially low or angry response, he was able to write to a steadily growing readership over the years. His talent for dense descriptions of nature and his mastery in the genre of short stories also contribute to this. He has had a keen interest in the Viking Age since school. With Tragudars land (1940) he makes use of the form of the historical novel for the first time (Viking Age, slavery). In addition, his novels gain a spiritual trait, due to his interest in the supernatural. Several works by Fridegård, including Lars Hård (1948), are made into films. At 71 he died (1968) in Uppsala, where he was also buried.

Fridegård moved several times, but stayed mostly in the central Swedish Uppland . Some streets and institutions there are named after him, such as a school in Håbo near Bålsta . There is a small Fridegård Museum in Övergran ( Enköping ) .

Awards

  • De Nios stora pris litteraturåret, 1947
  • Litteraturfrämjandets stora pris litteraturåret, 1967
  • Doblougska priset litteraturåret, 1968

Works

  • 1931 - Den svarta lutan (The black lute, poems)
  • 1933 - En natt i juli (One night in July, novel)
  • 1935 - Jag Lars Hård (Volume I of the trilogy, German Ich, Lars Hård , East Berlin 1972)
  • 1936 - Tack for himlastegen (II, thanks for the ladder to heaven)
  • 1936 - Barmhärtighet (III, Mercy)
  • 1937 - Offer
  • 1938 - Äran och hjältarna (Heroes and Honor)
  • 1939 - extras
  • 1940 - Tragudars land (German land of wooden gods, cultural historical novel, Prisma-Verlag Zenner and Gürchott, Leipzig 1980)
  • 1941 - Torntuppe
  • 1942 - Här är min hand (Here is my hand, continuation of the Hård novels)
  • 1944 - Gryningsfolket
  • 1944 - Kvarnbudet
  • 1947 - Fädera: stenåldern
  • 1948 - Johan From, Lars Hård och andra
  • 1949 - Offerrök (German sacrificial smoke: historical novel trilogy , Leipzig 1990)
  • 1950 - Kvinnoträdet
  • 1951 - Lars Hård går vidare (Lars Hård goes on)
  • 1952 - Johan Vallareman and andra sagor
  • 1952 - Porten kallas trång
  • 1953 - Vägen heter smal
  • 1954 - Sommar organ
  • 1955 - Larsmässa
  • 1955 - Lyktgubbarna
  • 1956 - Flyttfåglarna
  • 1956 - From och Hård
  • 1957 - Arvtagarna
  • 1958 - En bland eder
  • 1959 - Mudslides
  • 1959 - Svensk soldier
  • 1960 - Soldathustrun
  • 1961 - Mot öster - soldier!
  • 1962 - Soldatens kärlek
  • 1963 - Hemkomsten
  • 1963 - Den gåtfulla vägen
  • 1964 - På oxens horn (autobiographical)
  • 1965 - Lättingen
  • 1965 - Noveller
  • 1966 - Det kortaste strået
  • 1967 - Tre stigar
published posthumously
  • 1968 - Hallonflickan
  • 1971 - The blå dragonen. Självbiografiska berättelser
  • 1973 - Ängslyckan och andra berättelser

literature

  • Knut Jaensson: Lars Hård , in: ders .: Essayer , Stockholm 1946, pages 79–115.
  • Artur Lundkvist and Lars Forssell: Jan Fridegård , Stockholm 1949
  • Arne Robert Häggqvist: Blandat sällskap , Stockholm 1954, page 123 ff
  • Sten Kindlundh: "Lars Hård", världen och evigheten , in: Svensk litteraturtidskrift , 1970, No. 4, pages 13-24.
  • Peter Graves: Jan Fridegård: "Lars Hård" , Hull (GB) 1977
  • Ebbe Schön: Jan Fridegård. Proletärdiktaren och folkkulturen , Stockholm 1978

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kindler's New Literature Lexicon in the Munich 1988 edition
  2. ↑ a b Explanations are provided by Sabine , accessed on July 27, 2011
  3. ↑ Lars Hård, the son of a farm laborer, dreams of a higher destiny, meanwhile lies on his parents' pockets, hurt and even lets himself be carried away to an attempted murder that brings him to prison. After unemployment and further humiliation in Stockholm, he fulfills the request of his terminally ill mother to return home.
  4. ↑ bookrags , accessed July 27, 2011
  5. ↑ on Fridegård's partisanship for the proletariat, bluntness in sexual matters, solid colloquial expressions, ironic to cynical trait
  6. ↑ Lars Furuland ( Memento of 25 March 2007 at the Internet Archive ), accessed 27 July 2011
  7. ↑ Jan Fridegård, Trägudars country , in the preface to the second edition, FIB pocket 1944th
  8. ^ School ( Memento of August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 27, 2011
  9. ↑ A murder occurs during a farm workers' strike (Uppland 1925)
personal data
SURNAME Fridegård, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Enköpings-Näs, Enköping (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1968
Place of death Uppsala