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1891–1974
Also known as Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, Pär Lagerkvist, Par Lagerkvist, Pär Lägerkvist, Pr̈ Fabian Lagerkvist, pr lagerkvist
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize winner in 1951.
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He was dead. he lived no longer and would never live again. They had found him down there in the river, pale and bloodless, bereft of life's color, with a twig of the god's own tree in his hand. Thus it was. Thus it would be forever. Man's destiny is but one.…
A Jew, condemned by Jesus to wander eternally, goes to Delphi seeking answers regarding his future. The priests and oracle of the temple can give him none and send him further up the mountain to a hovel, where a retired Pythia lives with her aging, halfwit so…
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