Karin boye rörelse
I rörelse. Av Karin Boye. Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst. Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst. Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd -. men det är vägen, som är mödan värd. Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast. På ställen, där man sover blott en gång. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain Boye was born in Gothenburg Göteborg , Sweden in a wealthy family and moved with her family to Stockholm in , eventually settling in a house in Huddinge.
In Stockholm, she studied at the Åhlinska skolan until She then attended Södra seminariet, a teacher-training programme, in order to become a school teacher. She studied at Uppsala University from to and debuted in with a collection of poems, "Clouds" Swedish: Moln. During her time in Uppsala and until , Boye was a member of the Swedish Clarté League , a socialist group that was strongly antifascist. Eliot and the Surrealists to Swedish readers.
Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems, the most well-known of which are "Yes, of course it hurts" Swedish: Ja visst gör det ont [ 4 ] and "In motion" I rörelse from her collections of poems "The Hearths" Härdarna , , and "For the sake of the tree" För trädets skull , Boye's novel Astarte was a criticism of the bourgeois culture, and won a Nordic novel prize. Her novel "Crisis" Kris depicts her religious crisis and lesbianism.
In her novels "Merit awakens" Merit vaknar and "Too little" För lite she explores male and female role-playing. Outside Sweden, her best-known work is probably the novel Kallocain. Inspired by her visit to Germany during the rise of Nazism , it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World though written almost a decade before Orwell's magnum opus.
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In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum. The novel was filmed in Sweden in and was the main influence on the movie Equilibrium. Between and , Boye was married to another Clarté member, Leif Björck. The marriage was apparently a friendship union. In , after separating from her husband, she had a lesbian relationship with Gunnel Bergström, who left her husband, poet Gunnar Ekelöf , for Boye.
Following a bout of depression she left Stockholm for Berlin, where she went through psycho-analysis and affirmed her homosexuality. As Boye had resigned as editor of Spektrum she earned her living from translations and writing short stories for weekly magazines. From Boye was employed as teacher at Viggbyholm school, but suffered from periods of depression and suicide attempts. Boye died by suicide on 23 April She overdosed on sleeping pills.
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The boulder is now a memorial stone. Margot Hanel also died by suicide shortly thereafter. Karin Boye was given two very different epitaphs. The best-known is the poem "Dead Amazon" Död amazon by Hjalmar Gullberg , in which she is depicted as "Very dark and with large eyes". Another poem was written by her close friend Ebbe Linde [ sv ; fi ] and is entitled "Dead friend" Död kamrat. Here, she is depicted not as a heroic Amazon but as an ordinary human, small and grey in death, released from battles and pain.
Boye is also model to the character Isagel in Harry Martinson 's poem Aniara. Boye and Martinson had a close friendship in the 's. A literary association dedicated to her work was created in , keeping her work alive by spreading it among new readers. In , one of the branches of the Uppsala University Library was named in her honour. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.
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