A l'origine, les lais sont des compositions musicales exécutées sur la harpe ou la rote et relatant une aventure, un évènement plus ou moins merveilleux. De cette partition musicale s'est peu à peu détaché le texte pour donner un genre narratif. Ces oeuvres sont anonymes.

Lais féeriques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles

Contes cruels (suivi de) le sourire eternel

Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."

Barabbas

A continuation of an allegorical tale by the great Swedish poet, playwright, novelist & essayist (followed by "Pilgrim at Sea", 1962 & being the 3rd installment of Lagerkvist's tetralogy consisting of Barabbas, The Sybil, The Death of Ahasuerus & Pilgrim at Sea) attempting to polarize the Christian ethos & modern attitudes,

La mort d'Ahasverus

Contes cruels, suivi de Le sourire éternel

Angoisse

Pär Lagerkvist's prose novella Bödeln ("The Hangman", 1933), later adapted for the stage, (The Hangman, 1933; play, 1934) shows his growing concern with the totalitarianism and brutality that began to sweep across Europe in the years prior to World War II. Nazism was one of the main butts of the work and a weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper "Der Stürmer" responded with a very dismissive review.

Lais féeriques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles

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