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Per Olov Enquist
Life Time
23 September 1934 - 25 April 2020
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Swedish writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter The genre of Enquist's novels is intellectual historical prose. On the basis of biographies of famous people, Enquist builds a narrative rich in tragic perception of the world. Thus, in one of Enquist’s most famous novels, The Life Medical Visit (1999), the story of the rise and fall of Johann Struenze, the first minister of Danish King Christian VII, becomes the starting point in the writer’s exploration of the depths of the human person. In the
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Swedish writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter
The genre of Enquist's novels is intellectual historical prose. On the basis of biographies of famous people, Enquist builds a narrative rich in tragic perception of the world. Thus, in one of Enquist’s most famous novels, The Life Medical Visit (1999), the story of the rise and fall of Johann Struenze, the first minister of Danish King Christian VII, becomes the starting point in the writer’s exploration of the depths of the human person. In the novel The Book of Blanche and Marie (2004), devoted to the study of the fate of two women - the famous patient Charcot Blanche Wickman and the scientist Marie Curie - is permeated with the symbolism of deadly radioactive radiation as an image of suffering permeating human life. Enquist’s artistic method has been significantly influenced by psychoanalysis.
Enquist wrote several screenplays, they were filmed by Bille August, Jan Truel, many of his novels and plays were filmed: on the drama Imagemakers (1998) about Selma Lagerlof put the TV movie of the same name Ingmar Bergman (2000).