![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliant it is, but dense, protracted and underplotted are also words that adequately describe ANIARA, with a perusal of the introductory plot summary required for a full understanding of a narrative that isn’t fully fleshed out in the text. It’s said to have been instrumental in winning its author Harry Martinson (1904-78) the 1974 Nobel Prize (nothing else Martinson wrote had a fraction of the impact of ANIARA, something that, as the biographical notes included here make clear, upset him greatly), and remains an undeniably impressive example of visionary space opera.Ĭomprised of 103 linked poems broken into short rhythmic stanzas that at times rhyme, it is admittedly not an easy read. The one and only science fiction epic poem, originally published in Swedish and reissued here in its second English translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg (the first was by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert). ![]() By HARRY MARTINSON (Story Line Press 1956/98) ![]()
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