Barn av sin stad analys
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Barn av sin stad
Per Anders Fogelström. På Söder bor Lotten, änka efter hamnarbetaren Henning, och hennes barn. Deras Stockholm är en stad i våldsam utveckling under dessa år kring talets slut. Detta är andra delen i Per Anders Fogelströms älskade romankrönika över arbetarklassens utveckling under dryga hundra år i vår huvudstad.
Stad-serien – Slutet av Mina drömmars stad och början på Barn av sin stad. Del 3 av 8.
Loading interface About the author. Per Anders Fogelström 57 books 92 followers. Per Anders Fogelström was among the leading figures in modern Swedish literature. He spent his whole life in Stockholm, and the most famous of his many works is a series of novels set in the city he dearly loved. Ingmar Bergman's taboo-breaking film Summer with Monika is based on Fogelström's novel of the same name, published in The author of more than 40 books in total, Fogelström also served as director of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society from to He received an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University in Write a Review.
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Läsordning: Per Anders Fogelströms Stadserie
During the great Stockholm exhibition for art and industry, inthe city is celebrating itself and the achievement of two decades of massive change. Stockholm is expanding in all directions, the building market has boomed and collapsed and is booming again. Factories open and new technology appears. There is an electrical tram, there are street lights, bicycles start to become more and more frequent, factory owners develop into a new wealthy class, settling in the areas around the recently constructed Strandvägen along the "beach" between Östermalm and Djurgården.
Alfred Nobel's will has been published, and people are amazed that he considers his money best spent on the development of a more humane world, it "shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind". Hjalmar Branting, the socialist agitator, is not imprisoned for blasphemy on the city island of Långholmen anymore.
He is in fact a member of Parliament.
Hard to believe. August Strindberg writes his plays and novels. Carl Larsson has his art studio on Södermalm, and is painting al fresco in the National Museum. All getting better, all the time? Spring in the air? I was tempted to think so today, after finisheing the second volume of this family chronicle and taking a walk through Fågelström's expanding city. The sun is shining on the parks and streets where I walked in snow and wind just two weeks ago.
People are outside, smiling happily, finally able to wear a spring jacket. They have picnics, stroll through the city and enjoy the wonder of blue skies and flowers. The second volume clearly shows some signs of progress, of spring time for Stockholmers. The poor and dark city is slowly swallowed by larger avenues and prestigious houses, and new factory goods make life easier.
But not for everyone.
Stad-serien – Mina drömmars stad. Del 1 av 8.
The family I have now followed during forty years of struggles has no part in the development. They read the statistics in the newspaper, and shudder when they hear that a priest's life expectancy has increased to 67 years due to better medical care and nutrition, while a worker still has an average of 32 years of life. They demonstrate for the "utopian" dream of an 8-hour working day, and for minimal wages.