Stig Dagerman
Praise for A Moth to a Flame
Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion
Graham Greene
Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence
Colm Toibin
There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...
Times Literary Supplement
Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion
Graham Greene
Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence
Colm Toibin
There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...
Times Literary Supplement
Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion
Graham Greene
Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence
Colm Toibin
There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of ...
Times Literary Supplement