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Original title
  
Sorgegondolen

Language
  
Swedish

Published in English
  
1997

Originally published
  
1996

Page count
  
37

Publisher
  
Albert Bonniers förlag

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Country
  
Sweden

Publication date
  
1996

Pages
  
37

Author
  
Tomas Tranströmer

ISBN
  
9100562327

Translator
  
Robin Fulton

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Tomas Tranströmer books, Other books

The Sorrow Gondola (Swedish: Sorgegondolen) is a 1996 poetry collection by the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer. The title refers to the composition La lugubre gondola by Franz Liszt. It was the first collection by Tranströmer published after his 1990 stroke. It received the August Prize.

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, where the critic wrote that while the author's stroke is never mentioned explicitly, the collection "centers unmistakably on the controlled anguish that the 66-year-old poet's physical condition--and encroaching mortality--imposes." The review continued: "What saves the collection from morbidness is the formal beauty and remorselessly compressed clarity of the writing. Indeed, the almost telegraphic brevity of the poems is the volume's only concession to Transtromer's handicap. With the exception of the four-page title poem, a meditation on Wagner's final months, most of the pieces are only a few stanzas long, yet they retain all the force of the poet's earlier work."

References

The Sorrow Gondola Wikipedia