Scandinavian Literature

[Seeker No.1055841]

Hello /lit/.

Could you recommend a book for me that has been written by an author from either Sweden, Denmark or Norway?

Something like H.P. Lovecraft, or something else that's mystic and dark.

[Anonymous No.1055854]

Peer Gynt. It'll blow your fucking mind away.

[Anonymous No.1055868]

>Something like H.P. Lovecraft, or something else that's mystic and dark
excuse me if I ignore this

[Anonymous No.1055873]

Go read the Kalevala and slag off.

[Anonymous No.1055876]

The modern recommendation would be John Ajvide Lindqvist; Let the right one in is probably the best vampire novel in... well, pretty much ever.

Selma Lagerlöf toyed around with horror elements, but she never wrote proper horror.

Sorry, there simply isn't a noteable Scandinavian tradition of horror literature. Social realism, on the other hand.

[Anonymous No.1055881]

It's the only book from an author of any of those countries I've ever read, but fits the bill nicely, I think

[Anonymous No.1055943]

>>1055873
Isn`t that finnish?

[sage No.1055957]

Scandinavia has a lot of good authors, but i can`t really think of anyone like Lovecraft.
If you want to read to good Scandinavian lit, try some of these.
Hamsun, Ibsen, Strindberg, Blixen

You could also try the kalevala(finnish folklore) or heimskringla(history of the viking kings)

[Anonymous No.1055962]

>>1055881

oh got that cover is horrible

[sage No.1055968]

>>1055943
Yeah, I finished it.

[Autonomous No.1055977]

I got three words for you: Hans Christian Andersen.