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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
► pp. 75–90

Anxiety as a creative force and limit

Pär Lagerkvist, Birgitta Trotzig, and Lars Norén

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Article outline
  • “Anguish, anguish is my heritage”
  • The experience of loss
  • A ceremony of hopelessness
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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