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1. Quoted from Serri, Jérôme 2011. Haĩkus par Bashõ, Buson, Issa, Ryõkan, Shiki. Lire (2).

2. Gustafsson, Madeleine 1978. På sanningsbarriärens egg. BLM (6): 407-410.

3. Kjell Espmark explaines that the hammer-blows’ rhythmic beating “kom/kom/kom” reminds us Ibsen’s poem Bergmannen: “hammerslag på hammerslag, inntil livets sista dag”…

4. Translated by Colin Smith. The original title in French is Phénoménologie de perception (1945).

5. “Det torde ha varit slutet på Sibelius’ symfoni № 3 som spelade för honom”: Tranströmer’s additional explanation quoted by Kjell Espmark. (Espmark 1983: 69).

6. A definition of the style characteristic of the late works created by the great composers (Beethoven, Bartok, Hindemith and others) but also of painters (Rembrandt) usually simplified, without complicated constructions and more philosophical and meditative than pathetic and romantic. The term was used firstly by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and commented by others like Octavio Paz (1914-1998).

7. Eller “dialektiska miniatyrer” according to the definition in Swedish which Staffan Bergsten gives to the haiku poems.


LITERATURE

Books

  • Bergsten, Staffan 2011. Tomas Tranströmer: еtt diktarporträtt. Stockholm.
  • Cohen, Jonathan D. 2009. The red and the real: an essay on color onthology. Oxford.
  • Kärnell, Karl-Åke. 1962. Strindbergs bildspråk. En studie i prosastil. Uppsala.
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2005. Phenomenology of Perception. London and New York.
  • Wasilewska-Chmura, Magdalena. 2013. “Vokalerna var blå himmel och konsonanterna var svarta kvistar.” Om färgerna i Tomas Tranströmers poetiska seende.) In Filologiskt smörgåsbord 2. Vetenskapliga bidrag från skandinavistiken i Krakόw. Krakόw.
  • Espmark, Kjell 1983. Resans formler: еn studie i Tomas Tranströmers poesi. Stockholm.
  • Schiöler, Niklas 1999. Koncentrationens konst: Tomas Tranströmers senare poesi. Stockholm.
  • Schiöler, Niklas 2011. Ledstången i mörkret: texter om Tomas Tranströmer. Stockholm.
  • Tranströmer, Tomas 2011. Dikter och prosa 1954-2004. Stockholm.
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1977. Remarks on Colour. Oxford.

Periodicals

  • Bergsten, Staffan 1990. To Go through Walls: Tomas Tranströmer’s “Vermeer”. World Literature Today (4). 584-590.
  • Bly, Robert 1990. Tomas Tranströmer and “The Memory”. World Literature Today (4): 570.
  • Gustafsson, Madeleine 1978. På sanningsbarriärens egg. BLM (6): 407-410.
  • Sellin, Eric 1990. Musical Tranströmer. World Literature Today (4): 598-600.

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