Anders Olsson

Anders Olsson ( born June 19, 1949 in Huddinge ) is a Swedish professor of Literature at Stockholm University, literary critic and writer. He was on 20 February 2008 a member of the Svenska academies and succeeds the writer Lars Forssell on chair number 4.

Life

Olsson attended high school in Västerås and lived during this time in the neighborhood with the writer couple Lars and Madeleine Gustafsson, who inspired him literary. He spent a year at the high school in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and began after graduating from high school in 1968 a study of the Nordic languages ​​, literature, history with poetics and theoretical philosophy at Uppsala University. After a six year stay in Berlin in 1972, he studied at the University of Stockholm philosophy and literature. There he met Horace Engdahl and Arne Melberg and having them published 1977 anthology hermeneutics. That same year, Olsson began to publish the magazine along with Kris just this circle of literary scholars and critics, and other writers and artists, had the importance for the renewal of the Swedish literary point of view in the 1980s. During this time he began to write literary criticism and his own poems. Under Kjell Espmarks instructions he explored Gunnar Ekelöfs poetry.

Olsson came in contact with the Zen meditation and spent a month in Paris with the Japanese Zen master Taisen Deshimaru. Zen plays continually a big role in his life and work. He attended the 1979 Summer Program School of Theory and Criticism in Irvine, California, and had, among others, René Girard and Michael Riffaterre as a teacher. In particular, the controversial cultural critic Girard made ​​a lasting impression on Olsson, which recently reflected in the anthology published in 2007 Syndabocken.

Olsson made ​​his debut in 1981 with the collection of essays Mälden mellan stenarna, titled after a Gunnar Ekelöf series. The literary treatises of international standing was followed two years later, the dissertation Ekelöfs nej in which ( identify the synthetic, structural themes in the entire literary career ), the newly introduced " Thematic Criticism" was combined with large text proximity and intertextuality. This unique treatise led to a new way of looking at Gunnar Ekelöfs cross-border work.

Shortly thereafter, Olsson made ​​his debut as a lyricist. Dagar, aska (1984 ) discloses a melancholy imagery, meditative Zen inspiration and a great intertextual awareness. With a feeling of tightness in Sweden academia, he moved to Berlin and wrote more poetry. De antända polerna (1986 ) was followed by his debut, during the masterpiece Bellerophon resa (1988 ) has different dimensions. Based on the Iliad epic struggle of the hero Bellerophon with the fire-breathing monster Chimera built Olsson a significantly greater variety of poetry Suite as before. There prevails a similar melancholy mood, but the text is in its way wider and more diverse.

Between these two collections of poems he wrote the theoretically very influential work The okända texts (1987 ), which was his way back into the academic world, about the modernist and difficult to interpret poetry of Paul Celan. The translation band Purple air (1989 ) conducted a literary translation activity Olsson, often in collaboration with other authors, a. Later he translated, for example, the romantics Novalis and the critic Thomas Bernhard in collaboration with Daniel Birnbaum, with whom he also wrote the andra födan (1992).

The 1990s were initiated with the collection of poems Solstämma (1991). Two years later, the next poetic masterpiece Det vita ( The White ), a strange "vertical" collection of poems in which the majority of the poems takes a stretched in height form and each row consists of one or a few words appeared. It seems as if the poems shrink in width and move against " the White ". It took five years to Olsson with the previously last collection of poems Ett av mått lycka (1998) again zuwendete of poetry. It is to haiku poems with a narrow, precise Japanese meter ( three lines 5 - 7 - 5 syllable units ).

Olsson now dealt more with the words of others as his own. He started a major research project on the Finland-Swedish poet Gunnar Björling. This essay Att skriva resulted dagen - Gunnar Björling poetiska värld (1995 ) and the outputs from Björling Skrifter I- V ( 1995). This was followed by some easily approachable presentations of works Olsson of related poets Ekelunds Hunger (1996 ), about Vilhelm Ekelund and Gunnar Ekelöf (1997). After a book by individual studies appeared to the works of writers such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Edith Södergran and Birgitta defiantly. This book proved to be crucial to his appointment as a professor of literature at the University of Stockholm for the millennium. 2006 Skillnadens was published const, where Olsson not only sets the poetic fragment in a larger historical context, but also its occurrence in modern literary work represents.

His current research project deals with the works of poetic modernism of, among others, Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan.

Olsson is married to the artist Agnes Monus.

Awards

  • John Landquist Prize 1997
  • Schückska Prize 2007

Works

  • Johan Krouthen 1858-1932, 1958
  • Mälden mellan stenarna, 1981 ( collection of essays )
  • Ekelöfs nej, 1983 ( thesis )
  • Intertextualitet, 1984
  • Dagar, aska, 1984
  • De antända polerna, 1986
  • The okända texts, 1987
  • Bellerophon resa, 1988
  • Solstämma, 1991
  • The Andra Födan, 1992 ( together with Daniel Birnbaum )
  • Det vita, 1993
  • Ekelund's hungry, 1995
  • Att skriva dagen, 1995
  • Gunnar Ekelöf, 1997
  • Ett av mått lycka 1998
  • Läsningar av intet, 2000
  • Skillnadens const, 2006
  • Men så att oändligt lätt svara dig, 2010
  • Order asylum, 2011
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