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Stories of Happy People
by Lars Gustafsson
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0811209784
- ISBN 13
- 9780811209786
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Paperback / softback. New. What is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafssonâs <em>Stories of Happy People</em> is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. âUncle Sven and the Cultural Revolutionâ finds a politically indifferent Swedish research engineer, in Maoâs China as an industrial consultant, surprised by his own imagination. âThe Four Railroads of Iserlohnâ lead to poignant, illusionary journeyings. The half-felt yearnings of displaced intellectuals, trying to break out of the stasis of their existence, are explored in âThe Art of Surviving November,â âWhat Does Not Kill Us, Tends to Make Us Stronger,â and âThe Fugitives Discover That They Knew Nothing.â âA Water Storyâ is a sketch of the elusive staying power of love. The protected, private universes of the mentally retarded, the insane, and the senile are opened to view in âGreatness Strikes Where It Pleases,â âThe Bird in the Breast,â and âOut of the Pain.â In all of these stories, Gustafsson, one of Swedenâs leading men of letters and philosophical writer par excellence, places lives of seeming smallness within the wider context of the culture and history of our hapless era.
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- Title
- Stories of Happy People
- Author
- Lars Gustafsson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0811209784
- ISBN 13
- 9780811209786
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1986-06
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