Aniara
Harry Martinson
ANIARA is a book-length, epic, science fiction poem. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential str…
The Way Out
Harry Martinson
In THE WAY OUT, which came the year after FLOWERING NETTLES, Harry Martinson continued his autobiographical story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his twofold longing – the longing away from his overly harsh living conditions and the longing for…
