Paal Brekke

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Paal Brekke

Paal Emanuel Brekke (born September 17, 1923 in Røros , † December 2, 1993 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian writer , poet , critic and translator.

Life

Paal Brekke was the son of a pastor. In 1941 he fled to Sweden and studied art history at Uppsala University from 1941 to 1945 . After the end of the German occupation, he moved to Oslo and worked as an art and literary critic. Many of his first poems, for example in Jeg gikk så long veier ( I went so far , 1945) were “shaped by the special problems of the war and refugee situation”. His breakthrough as a representative of young modernist Norwegian poetry came in 1949 with the collection of poetry Skyggefektning ( shadow fencing ). she

“ Is characterized by an associative visual language that is only held together by certain key words, with which the 'chunks of chaos' - as the characteristic title of the first part - a fragmented perception of reality were also expressed formally. "

- Thomas Seiler

Older Norwegian writers angrily condemned this style of poetry; Arnulf Øverland held a polemical lecture entitled Tungetale paa Parnasset (speaking in tongues on the Parnassus ) against this modernist poetry. The heated argument that followed was known as the Tungedale debate.

Brekke was editor of the magazine Diktets venner from 1958 to 1962 . With his translations, among others especially Das wüsten Land by TS Eliot , Brekke made modern European poetry known in Norway and with him Norwegian poetry "caught up with the European avant-garde ". In his later poems, Brekke's bitterness and anger over current political phenomena were expressed.

In 1960 Brekke traveled to Asia. The misery in the Third World and the Vietnam War influenced his further writing. In 1962 his journalistic report and documentary novel En munnfull av Ganges ( A Sip of the Ganges ) appeared. He edited several poetry anthologies , including Modernistisk lyrikk fra 8 land in 1955 ( Modernist poetry from 8 countries ). In 1970 and 1981 edited volumes with his essays appeared.

Works

  • 1942: Av din jord er vi til (poetry)
  • 1945: Jeg gikk så lang veier (poetry)
  • 1946: På flukt (novel)
  • 1949: Skyggefektning (poetry)
  • 1951: Aldrende Orfeus (novel)
  • 1953: Og hekken vokste kjempehøy (novel)
  • 1962: En munnfull av Ganges (documentation)
  • 1965: Det skjeve smil i rosa (poetry)
  • 1968: Granatmannen kommer (poetry and prose)
  • 1982: Før var jeg en fisk. Om dict av barn og gamle (essay)
  • 1993: Skogsfuglen (poetry)
  • 1994: Bestemor (poetry)
  • Translations of American poetry (1957), Japanese poetry (1965) and Indian poetry (1979)

Awards

literature

  • Horst Bien: Northern European literatures . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1980; Page 108
  • Philip Houm: Paal Brekke . In: Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2105-6 .
  • Thomas Seiler: På tross av. Paal Brekke's poetry against the background of modernist art theory . Contributions to Nordic Philology, Volume 22. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7190-1285-9
  • Thomas Seiler: Modernism . In: Jürg Glauser (Hrsg.): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-01973-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, page 622
  2. ↑ Thomas Seiler: Modernism . In: Jürg Glauser (Hrsg.): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-01973-8 , page 279
  3. ^ Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, page 279
  4. ^ Store Norske Leksikon
  5. ^ Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006
personal data
SURNAME Brekke, Paal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brekke, Paal Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian author, translator and critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Røros
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1993
Place of death Oslo