The Sorrow Gondola

The Sorrow Gondola (Swedish: Sorgegondolen) is a 1996 poetry collection by the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer. The title refers to the composition La lugubre gondola by Franz Liszt. It was the first collection by Tranströmer published after his 1990 stroke. It received the August Prize.[1]

The Sorrow Gondola
First edition
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
Original titleSorgegondolen
TranslatorRobin Fulton
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
PublisherAlbert Bonniers förlag
Publication date
1996
Published in English
1997
Pages37
ISBN9100562327

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, where the critic wrote that while the author's stroke is never mentioned explicitly, the collection "centers unmistakably on the controlled anguish that the 66-year-old poet's physical condition--and encroaching mortality--imposes." The review continued: "What saves the collection from morbidness is the formal beauty and remorselessly compressed clarity of the writing. Indeed, the almost telegraphic brevity of the poems is the volume's only concession to Transtromer's handicap. With the exception of the four-page title poem, a meditation on Wagner's final months, most of the pieces are only a few stanzas long, yet they retain all the force of the poet's earlier work."[2]

gollark: /s /s
gollark: Try triaxilating the MP3 array.
gollark: I just remotely administer my stuff by SSHing occasionally.
gollark: Don't forget to navigate the redundant DHCP microchip.
gollark: According to my jargon generation system, you need to actuate the solid state form factor.

See also

References
  1. "Alla Nominerade". augustpriset.se (in Swedish). Swedish Publishers' Association. Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
  2. Staff writer (1997-09-01). "Fiction Review: The Sorrow Gondola by Tomas Transtromer". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
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