PER CHRISTIAN JERSILD’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PAMFLET CALVINOL’S VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD Cover Image

РЕЛИГИОЗНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ПАМФЛЕТ П. К. ЕРШИЛЬДА «ПУТЕШЕСТВИЕ КАЛЬВИНОЛЯ ПО СВЕТУ»
PER CHRISTIAN JERSILD’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PAMFLET CALVINOL’S VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD

Author(s): Diana Victorovna Koblenkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Swedish literature; satire; Protestantism; political pamphlet;

Summary/Abstract: In Swedish literature, satire has a special, inherently unvalued, place. Per Christian Jersild’s novel Calvinol’s Voyage Around the World (1965) is a unique text that concentrates a large number of acute worldview problems that Swedish society tries not to actualize. Among them are the issues of Catholicism and Protestantism, Nazism and racial biology, a special ‘third’ path of Sweden and the consequences of neutrality against the backdrop of world dictatorial regimes. Reflections on the fate of the world are presented by Jersild in a conventional form of a religious and political pamphlet.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 6 (175)
  • Page Range: 7-13
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian