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Contents
Recent additions
Reference   Chronology, Bibliographies, etc.
Introductory and Biographical
Commentary
About specific works

Recent Additions
Gary Kern: Bjørneboe's great failure: The History of Bestiality    (2003, Excerpt)
The three parts of the trilogy are astonishing works of genius; all fail as novels because Bjørneboe dared to attempt the impossible.
Jan Rokne: JB: A Writer for Human Rights
From AmnestyNytt, magazine of the Norwegian section of Amnesty International

Reference
Chronology of Bjørneboe's life and work
Annotated list of Bjørneboe's works
Includes index to material about specific works on this site
Literature about Jens Bjørneboe in major languages
Lists books and articles in English, French and German
Bibliography of literature about Jens Bjørneboe in all languages
with added titles and annotations in English
I. Books and dissertations
II. Selected articles published since 1976
Bibliographies about specific works
The Trilogy and The Sharks
Other Novels
Plays
Poems
Essays
Glossary of Historical Persons mentioned in the Trilogy and The Sharks
Capsule descriptions with dates, nationalities, fields

Introductory and Biographical
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe: A Rebel with Self- Discipline   (2001)
Bjørneboe's nephew examines the impact of JB's early training as a painter and his religious orientation on his radicalism as a writer.
Miljenko Cemeljic: A Croatian Response to the Trilogy   (2001)
Carl Fredrik Engelstad: Upon Jens Bjørneboe's Death
Obituary, Aftenposten (Oslo), May 11, 1976
Øyvind Gulliksen: Tunnel of Love: American Influences on Norwegian Culture   (1998)
Excerpt examines changes in Norwegian attitudes toward America in the 1960s, and key role played by Bjørneboe
Oddbjørn Johannessen: Jens Bjørneboe and the Norwegian Theater   (1996)
Steinar Lem: Bjørneboe's Books Still Live   (1995)
Joe Martin: Encountering Bjørneboe
From Keeper of the Protocols   (1996)
Thomas Munthe: A Flayed Presence in the World   (1995)
A brief account of Bjørneboe's early life up to his literary debut
Jan Rokne: JB: A Writer for Human Rights  (2000)
From AmnestyNytt, magazine of the Norwegian section of Amnesty International
Kaj Skagen: Bjørneboe's Social Individualism   (1984)
A personal assessment of Bjørneboe's significance
Fredrik Wandrup: The Little Children   (1984)
Bjørneboe's years teaching in a Steiner (Waldorf) school.
Fredrik Wandrup: Storming the Bastille   (1984)
The writing of Bjørneboe's prison essays

Commentary
Sigurd Aa. Aarnes: The Problem of Evil: Nazism in JB's writing   (1975)
Translated by John Weinstock
Fredrik Engelstad: Knowledge and Society: Holberg, Ibsen, Bjørneboe   (1995)
Society's resistance to new knowledge as seen in Holberg's Erasmus Montanus, Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and Bjørneboe's Semmelweis
Atle Evje: JB: "...After All, I'm Basically a Poet"   (1977)
An essay on Bjørneboe's poetry
Øyvind Gulliksen: Bjørneboe and America   (1976)
Discusses views of America in JB's writing, with notes on the influence of Melville, Henry Miller and Hemingway
Oddbjørn Johannessen: The authoritarian and the "traitors"   (1991)
A brief study of a Bjørneboe theme, particularly as seen in the play Semmelweis
Gary Kern: Bjørneboe's great failure: The History of Bestiality    (2003, Excerpt)
The three parts of the trilogy are astonishing works of genius; all fail as novels because Bjørneboe dared to attempt the impossible.
Halfdan Kierulf: The Vision of Sickness in Jens Bjørneboe's Writings(1979)
A neurologist examines images of disease in the trilogy and other writings
Inge S. Kristiansen: The Anarchist   (1987)
On the relation between Bjørneboe's anarchist views and his early association with Anthroposophy
Inge S. Kristiansen: Toward the End Times   (1995)
On Bjørneboe's view of the millennium
Leif Longum: The Bird Lovers: Timelessness and Contemporary Problematic   (1977)
Leif Longum: Moment of Freedom
From A Mirror for Ourselves: View of man and reality in postwar Norwegian prose (1968)
Joe Martin: Bjørneboe and Foucault   (1996)
A perspective on Bjørneboe's prison writings
Joe Martin: Bjørneboe on the Death Penalty   (1996)
The executioner's speech in Powderhouse
Joe Martin: Translator's Introduction to Semmelweis   (1998)
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: The Least of These:
Critique of the 1959 English translation of Jonas
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Notes on the Genesis of Powderhouse   (2000)
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Translator's Introduction to TheSilence   (2000)
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: Winter in Bellapalma: Harbinger of Works to Come   (1999)
JB's early comic novel foreshadows Moment of Freedom and The Bird Lovers
Mark Mussari:. Color: the Material of Immateriality in JB's Blåmann   (2000)
The spiritual symbolism of color in JB's 1959 artist novel.
Elizabeth A. Schultz: The Trembling Balance in JB's The Sharks   (1998)
Review by a Melville scholar
Jahn Thon: Bjørneboe's Social Critique   (1996)
Places Bjørneboe in the Bohemian literary tradition.
Jahn Thon: "Something New Must Be Created"   (1979)
Bjørneboe's view of history in The Silence
Fredrik Wandrup: Bjørneboe's Animal Symbolism   (1984)
Excerpt from Jens Bjørneboe: Man, Myth, Art

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