Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Aniara is a landmark Swedish epic poem in which the spacecraft Aniara veers off course and humanity, cut off from Earth, is forced to rethink the meaning of existence.
Work Information
A drifting spacecraft becomes the stage for a cosmic meditation on civilization and isolation.
Against the background of the atomic age and space travel, the poem renders the fragility of technology and civilization through vivid poetic imagery. Personal anxiety, collective loss, and cosmic loneliness resonate throughout.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Story Line Pr
- Published
- 1999-01-07
- Pages
- 157 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781885266637
- ISBN-10
- 1885266634
- Category
- 洋書/Nonfiction/Philosophy
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Reviews
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Christmas present for my son....
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After more than twenty years of searching for an English translation of this poem, I finally have had the great fortune to obtain a copy! This is the 24-year story of how the 8,000 inhabitants of a doomed 'space ark' try to cope with their hopeless situation. It is a dark review of the human condition, sometimes difficult, often beautiful. The introduction and translator's notes are a must-read. Strangely, there is no mention at all of the 'modern' opera by Karl-Birger Blohmdahl (the only true 'space opera'?) which is how most non-Swedes have been introduced to Aniara for many decades. The Aniara Suite was featured as side 2 of a very rare release of the "2001..." soundtrack years ago. If still available, the 1985 Caprice 2-CD set (CAP 22016 1-2) is an excellent companion to this book.