![]() ![]() Such is the narrative gist of the Swedish poet Harry Martinson’s book-length serial poem Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space, begun in 1953 and published in its entirety in 1956, eighteen years before Martinson won the Nobel Prize for Literature (which he shared with the novelist Eyvind Johnson). The associations and promises of the Sun. Its gateway of purest crystal and cut off The passengers must resign themselves to years of continued existence as the ship proceeds inexorably into the empty regions beyond the solar system, heading for a destination they will not live to reach, the constellation Lyra: Early in the flight, the ship is bumped slightly off course after a near collision with an asteroid its navigational equipment is damaged, and it will be unable to change direction. A scene from Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s film AniaraĪn immense and well-stocked spaceship sets out on what should be a routine voyage: shuttling eight thousand refugees to resettlement on Mars after Earth’s environment has been poisoned by a succession of nuclear wars. ![]()
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