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Goodis, David

The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have been labelled classics. This applies not least to his second novel, Dark Passage (1946), which was successfully filmed in 1947 with Laureen Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the starring roles. Goodis started his literary career by writing for pulp magazines and paperback pub...

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Romantiken - "att vara Gud, att bli människa, att bilda sig"

By: Michael Economou

Denna kulturepok, romantiken, till vilken såväl Stagnelius som Lord Byron hör trots de skilda livsvillkoren och de knappast jämförbara författarrollerna, ses vanligtvis som pågående mellan 1790 och 1850 inom konst, litteratur, filosofi, musik och vetenskap. Att fånga tidens särart låter sig inte göras så enkelt ... "

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