The Markurells of Wadköping
By: Hjalmar Bergman ; translated by Johanna Sandberg and Eric Sandberg ; with an introduction by Eric Sandberg
Contributors: Sandberg, Johanna, translator; Sandberg, Eric, translator, writer of introduction
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781604979169
Subjects: Social classes; Fiction; Family secrets
Work titles: Markurells i Wadköping
Description: "First published in 1919, The Markurells of Wadköping is widely considered to be Bergman's masterpiece. At times uproariously comic, at times darkly tragic, but always powerfully compassionate, it narrates a single critical summer's day in the lives of the inhabitants of the seemingly idyllic town of Wadköping. The professional and personal lives of the vulgar upstart Harald Hilding Markurell and the aloof aristocrat Carl-Magnus de Lorche have long been strangely intertwined, but they now face a crisis as long-concealed secrets threaten to emerge. Available in the first new English translation after almost a century, The Markurells of Wadköping is a superb yet little-known example of European literary modernism at its most accessible and dazzling" --
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.

"This translation is based on the 1953 Albert Bonniers Förlag edition edited by Johannes Edfelt" -- Translators' preface.

Includes bibliographical references.