The Garden

Name: The Garden
Brand: Vagabond Voices
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English

By (author): Magnus Florin

Translated by: Harry Watson

Long description: This novel is based on the life of Linnaeus, the eighteenth-century, Swedish enlightenment figure famous for his taxonomy or scientific classification still used in biology. It principally concerns the different ways Linnaeus and his gardener interpret the world around them. The gardener perceives plants for what they are in themselves and Linnaeus for what they are in relation to other things. They never understand each other and the dialogues are wonderfully inconclusive. See more

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Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 19 May 2014
Publisher: Vagabond Voices
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781908251268

About Magnus Florin

Magnus Florin who was born in Uppsala in 1955 was first published in 1989 with Berattelsens gang (The Narrative Flow). This was followed by Tror du pa denna historia? (Do you believe this story?) in 1992 and both were collections of short prose pieces and poems. He then published this novel Tradgarden in 1995 as well as Syskonen (Brothers and Sisters) in 1998 and Cirkulation (Circulation) in 2001. His latest novels Leendet (The Smile) and Randerna (The Stripes) were published in 2005 and 2010. Florin has also worked as a librettist for the operas Goya (Gothenburg Opera 2010) and Hemligheter (Secrets) which was about Swedenborg (Malmo Opera 2011). An opera staged the Drottningholm Theatre in 1999 was based on The Garden. He has worked on dramatisations including Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time for Swedish Radio in 2009). From 1980 to 1990 he worked as dramaturg (literary consultant and researcher) at Sweden's leading theatre the Dramaten in Stockholm. From 2000 to 2006 he was the head of radio drama at Radio Sweden and in 2009 he returned to the Dramaten as chief dramaturg.