Ohlsson has created a compelling study of jealousy and desire by blurring the realms of fantasy and reality. He explores, at times quite humorously, the complexities of relationships, the darkness of love, and the vile inhumanity that often lurks beneath the surface. Mixing elements of psychological drama with redeeming doses of Nabokov, Gregorius presents an eye-opening path into the inner world of an antihero. With the skill of a literary magician, Ohlsson constantly overthrows expectations, haunting us with notions of our own malignant mortality."--BOOK JACKET.
Ett nytt land. Ett nytt språk. En ny familj? Flickan i Bengt Ohlssons nya roman har flyttat med sin far från ett oglamoröst Lettland till ett magnifikt hus i England, det är faktiskt rena slottet. Hon har fått en styvmor, en styvsyster, ett eget fint rum. Hon får uppmärksamhet och kärlek. Det kunde inte vara bättre. Men flickan är vilse i sagolandet. Inne i henne skrapar en längtan efter den försvunna modern och stranden i Kolka därhemma, och en ilska mot det nya livet som hon inte kan behärska. En mörk plan växer i henne. Hon gillrar en fälla för styvmodern. Bengt Ohlsson visar än en gång vilken mästare han är på stora svall och små nyanser i människors inre. Porträttet av en flicka på väg att bli vuxen, som förtvivlat försöker orientera sig i en ny omgivning, är bland det starkaste han har skrivit.
Åke och Hanna har det egentligen ganska bra med varann. Men en impuls från en väninna, kombinerat med en vag känsla av man borde vilja experimentera mer i sitt liv, gör att Hanna övertalar Åke att följa med till en swingerklubb. Där man byter partners en och en. Eller gör det alla på en gång. Eller vad det nu blir. Åke ställer upp, mest för att inte vara den som alltid säger nej.Besöket leder inte till någonting just, men strax därefter får de av klubbens värdinna veta att ett annat par är intresserat av en fortsättning.Nu ska experimentet fullföljas. Nu ska Åke och Hanna vidga sina horisonter. Efter en spänd middag på spaghetti vongole går de med varsin partner till varsitt rum. Det går bra i det ena. Mindre bra i det andra. Och vad händer sedan?Bengt Ohlssons Swing är en komisk, ömsint och gripande berättelse om våra krav på spänning och fantasi i sexlivet i en tid där porr kallas erotica och man kan köpa dildos på apoteket. Som ingen annan förmår Bengt Ohlsson fånga upp det som rör sig i tiden och foga in det i närgångna historier om vardagens utmaningar och hot.
Författaren och journalisten Bengt Ohlsson har följt Margot Wallström i spåren, från hennes arbete på FN i New York till barndomens Kåge i Västerbotten. Han har varit med vid stenhårda förhandlingar med representanter från krigshärjade länder där övergrepp på kvinnor är vardagsmat, följt med på glamorösa välgörenhetsgalor och suttit vid köksbordet med Margot Wallströms familj. Frågorna har varit många: vad driver henne, hur ser hon på sig själv och sina uppdrag? Hur kommer det sig att flickan från arbetarhemmet i Kåge kom att ingå i en svensk tradition av internationellt engagemang på hög nivå? Och varför ville hon inte komma hem och bli partiordförande när Socialdemokraterna behövde henne som mest?
“Both a riveting novel on its own merits and an astonishing gloss on an earlier masterpiece.”—Margaret Atwood Bengt Ohlsson, one of Sweden’s most successful young writers, has responded to the classic Doctor Glas with Gregorius, which is the voice of Pastor Gregorius over the course of what could be his last and fateful summer. Gregorius is a rancorous, malodorous, and unattractive figure married to a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. But his sense of his own mortality, of his personal inadequacy, and his tenuous hold on happiness are uniquely absorbing and haunting. It is a compelling study of loneliness, longing, and the nature of love, the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart.
In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the life of children and systems of governance in the early modern Swedish state. Educational systems defined the spatial aspects of childhood—where children were supposed to grow up, in the home, the school, the streets and alleys, or the place of work—over a period of about two hundred years. Schools and education represent both a mental and a physical space; an abstract place for children as well as a local and concrete place for them, which stood out against the alternative spatial aspects of the life of children. It is also a study of how different cultural systems influence the definitions of childhood and schools, in the context of church and home instruction, poor relief, policing, surveillance, and the question of why children went to schools. It examines the role of the school as childcare and as a provider of food, shelter and welfare, and as governance.
This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself—so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing “the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”) by means of a new focus on collegial practices.
During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians of technology and economics, and management experts to identify and examine the rules and motives that govern the environmental behaviour of individuals, households, organizations and society as a whole. Illustrated with case studies from Scandinavia, it shows how behaviours with negative or positive environmental effects are often performed without such consequences in mind. The book discusses how change towards positive environmental behaviour often conflicts with deep-rooted habits as well as exploring the importance for environmental practice of different everyday contexts. By presenting this multi-disciplinary analysis, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of how behavioural change in relation to the environment can come about and how this can be integrated in the political framework.
A comprehensive overview of wood-inhabiting fungi, insects and vertebrates, discussing habitat requirements along with strategies for maintaining biodiversity.
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