What is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars GustafssonāsĀ
Stories of Happy PeopleĀ is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. āUncle Sven and the Cultural Revolutionā finds a politically indifferent Swedish research engineer, in Maoās China as an industrial consultant, surprised by his own imagination. āThe Four Railroads of Iserlohnā 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 āThe Art of Surviving November,ā āWhat Does Not Kill Us, Tends to Make Us Stronger,ā and āThe Fugitives Discover That They Knew Nothing.ā āA Water Storyā 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 āGreatness Strikes Where It Pleases,ā āThe Bird in the Breast,ā and āOut of the Pain.ā In all of these stories, Gustafsson, one of Swedenās 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.
This book title, Stories of Happy People, ISBN: 9780811209786, by Lars Gustafsson, published by New Directions (June 17, 1986) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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