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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 17 (1919)

Literature awardInternational literature awardLifetime achievement award

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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler かーる しゅぴってらー Winner

A sweeping epic by Carl Spitteler that explores the relationship between gods and humans on a mythic scale. Written between 1900 and 1905 and revised in 1910, it is known for reworking Greek mythology in a modern idiom.

A vast epic that layers the mythic world over the human one.

160 pages
epic poetryGreek mythologysymbolismgods and mortalsSwiss literature