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Jens Bjørneboe's Essays: A Bibliography
 Compiled by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

Norge, Mitt Norge (Norway, my Norway). Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1968.
"Essays on the Authoritarian Type."
Excerpts

Vi Som Elsket Amerika (We Who Loved America). Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1970.
"Essays on the Madness of Superpowers, the Desire to Punish, Art and Morals."
Excerpts

Politi og Anarki (Police and Anarchy). Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1972.
"Essays on Cats, Courts, and People."
Excerpts

Under en Mykere Himmel (Under a Gentler Heaven). Edited by André Bjerke. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1976.
Essays from Bjørneboe's days as a teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in the 1950s.
Excerpts

Lanterner (Lanterns). Edited by André Bjerke. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1977.
Early travel pieces, epistles, and short stories, with illustrations by the author.
Excerpts

Om Brecht (On Brecht). Edited by Tone Bjørneboe and K. F. Engelstad. Oslo: Pax forlag, 1977.
Excerpts

Om Teater (On Theater). Edited by Tone Bjørneboe and K. F. Engelstad. Oslo: Pax forlag, 1978.
Excerpts

Bøker og Mennesker (Books and People). Edited by Aud Gulbransen and Jadwige T. Kvadsheim. Oslo: Gyldendals fakkelbøker, 1979.
Book reviews and articles, mostly on literary subjects.
Excerpts

Samlede Essays (Collected Essays). Issued jointly in hardcover by Gyldendal and Pax, 1996. In 6 volumes: Politikk, Kultur (2 v), Teater, Pedagogikk, Epistler.

REFERENCES

Bergseth, L. "Jens Bjørneboes syn på drama og teater" (JB's view of drama and the theater) Dissertation. Univ. of Bergen, 1984. (Om Teater, Om Brecht)

Bonsaksen, Gunnar. "Jens Bjørneboe og de norske skolebarn" (JB and the Norwegian schoolchildren). Ordet, no.2 (1995):16-19. (Under en Mykere Himmel)

Borgersen, Ivar. "Sentrale teorier i Jens Bjørneboes oppdragelsessyn :en litter‘r-pedagogisk studie" (Central theories in JB's view of education: a literary- pedagogical study). Dissertation. Univ. of Trondheim, 1982. (Under en Mykere Himmel)

Durova [Dourova], O.I.. "Origins of Jens Bjørneboe's essays." Vetsnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Zhurnalistika No 1(1999):109-115. (In Russian)

Fosse, Jon. Foreword to Samlede Essays, by Jens Bjørneboe. Oslo: Pax,1996. In Samlede Essays: Politikk, 5-8. In New Norwegian.

Garton, Janet. Jens Bjørneboe: Prophet Without Honor. Contributions to the Study of World Literature, no. 9. Ch. 2 (12-22) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985.

Gulbransen, Aud and Jadwiga Teresa Kvadsheim. Jens Bjørneboe: En bibliografi. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1978. Extensive bibliography of books and articles by and about Bjørneboe from 1946 to 1976. Only a fraction of Bjørneboe's articles and essays have been collected in book form; this book lists the rest as well.

Gulliksen, Øyvind. "Bjørneboe og Amerika." (Bjørneboe and America). Norsk Litteraer Aarbok 1976, ed. Leif Mæhle. 157-169. Oslo: Det norske samlaget, 1976. Traces JBs growing disillusionment with America and the corruption of the American ideal of freedom. Material drawn mainly from Norway, my Norway, We Who loved America, and the trilogy. JB's affinities with Melville, Hemingway, Henry Miller. In New Norwegian.

Horgar, Fartein. Essayisten Jens Bjørneboe (The essayist JB). Universitetsavisa no. 18 (1996). 29 pars. Online. Review of Samlede Essays (Pax, 1996). Concludes that the thematic arrangement of the six volumes of essays is appropriate.

Imerslund, Knut. "Jens Bjørneboe og pedagogikken." (JB and pedagogy) Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift, 78 (1994), no 5:305-314. (Under en Mykere Himmel)

Kristiansen, Otto. "'Svikeren'. En presentasjon av Jens Bjørneboes essayistiske forfatterskap" ("The traitor": a presentation of JB's essayistic authorship). Dissertation. Univ. of Oslo, 1979.

Nygren, Lars. "Nattsvart optimism." (Night-black optimism) In Grannskap: Nordisk antologi, redigerad av Anders Weider och Lillemor Sörman. Ur Café Existens 1984-1994 (Bottna, Caf‚ Existens, 1994), 103-114. Originally published in Cafe Existens nr 53, 1992. (Om Brecht)

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