Literature about Jens Bjørneboe in Major Languages
*Engelstad, Fredrik. 1995. Knowledge and Society: Holberg, Ibsen and Bjørneboe. Translated by Ann Clay Zwick. TheNorseman, 35, No. 4/5: 17-25. The theme of society's resistance to new scientific knowledge in Ludvig Holberg's Erasmus Montanus, Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis.
Garton, Janet. 1985. Jens Bjørneboe: Prophet Without Honor, Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No 9 Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub Group. Introduction to Bjørneboe's life and work.
Garton, Janet. 1984. "‘A Vision of a Continual Battle’: Jens Bjørneboe and the Theatre." Scandinavica 23: 137-160. Later published as chapter 7 in Jens Bjørneboe: Prophet Without Honor.
*Gulliksen, Øyvind T. 1998. "Tunnel of Love: American Influences on Norwegian Culture." In Images of America in Scandinavia, ed. by Poul Houe and Sven Håkon Rossel. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 28 Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 101-127. Includes a discussion of Bjørneboe's attitude toward America (117-119).
Hoberman, John M. 1976. "The Political Imagination of Jens Bjørneboe: a Study of Under en Hårdere Himmel (Under a harsher sky)." Scandinavian Studies, 48 (Winter 1976): 52-70. Quotations from Bjørneboe's works and other Norwegian sources untranslated.
*Johannessen, Oddbjørn. 2002. Jens Bjørneboe and the Norwegian theater. In Bjørneboe, Jens. Amputation: Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle. Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 2003, 137-142..
*Kern, Gary. 2003. "Bjørneboe's great failure: The History of Bestiality". In Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy, ed. George Slusser and Jean-Pierre Barricelli, 198-222. Riverside, CA: Xenos. The three parts of the trilogy are astonishing works of genius, "which by breaking rules and crossing over borders convey more passion and force of personality than whole schools of neat and proper writers"; all fail as novels because Bjørneboe dared to attempt the impossible. Excerpt
*Kristiansen, Inge S. 1998. The Anarchist. Translated by Esther Greenleaf Mürer. In Degrees of Freedom: Anarchist essays by and about Jens Bjørneboe Philadelphia, Protocol Press, 12-20. Translation of chapter from Inge S. Kristiansen, Jens Bjørneboe og Antroposofien (Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1989). Examines the relationship between the anthroposophical and the anarchist strands of Bjørneboe's thought.
Longum, Leif. 1983. "In the Shadow of Ibsen: His Influence on Norwegian Drama and on Literary Attitudes." Review of National Literatures 12): 78-100. Ibsen's influence on Gunnar Heiberg, Helge Krog, Nordahl Grieg, and Jens Bjørneboe.
Longum, Leif. 1992. "Jens Bjørneboe and the Laughter of Tuscany." In I rapporti tra Italia e Europa del nord nella letteratura e nell'arte. Giornate scandinavie 3-5 maggio 1989, ed. Randi Langen Moen (Bologna, Universita di Bologna, 1992), 127-136. The role of Italy in Bjørneboe's work.
Martin, Joe. 1996. Keeper of the Protocols: The Works of Jens Bjørneboe in the Crosscurrents of Western Literature, American University Studies. Series I, Germanic Languages and Literatures, vol 108. New York: Peter Lang. Argues that Bjørneboe's proper context is an international one.
*Martin, Joe. 1999. Translator's introduction to Semmelweis, by Jens Bjørneboe (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1999), 5-18.
Mawby, Janet. 1975. "The Norwegian novel today." Scandinavica 14, no. 2 (Nov): 101-13. Contains a brief outline of the main themes of the trilogy and The Sharks.
Mishler, William. 1987. "Jens Bjørneboe, Anthroposophy and Hertug Hans [Duke Hans]." Edda, nr. 2: 167-78. Anthroposophical symbolism in Bjørneboe's early novella. Quotations from works and other Norwegian sources untranslated.
Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. 1999. Translator's introduction to Moment of Freedom, by Jens Bjørneboe. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions and Norwich: Norvik Press, 1-9.
Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. 2000a. Translator's introduction to Powderhouse, by Jens Bjørneboe. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions and Norwich: Norvik Press, 1-8.
*Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. 2000b. Translator's introduction to The Silence, by Jens Bjørneboe. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions and Norwich: Norvik Press, 1-9.
Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. 2003. "Mad scientists and Moral Outrage: The Genesis of Jens Bjørneboe's Amputation." In Bjørneboe, Jens. Amputation: Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle. Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 143-166.
Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. 2004. "Jens Bjørneboe." In Twentieth-Century Norwegian Authors, edited by Tanya Thresher (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale), 11-26. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 279).
Mussari, Mark. 1999. Farvens klang: Color Spaces in Strindberg, Branner, Dinessen and Bjørneboe. PhD. Dissertation, Univ of Washington. Includes a chapter "Color: the Material of Immateriality in Bjørneboe's Frihetens Øyeblikk [Moment of Freedom] and Blåmann [Little Boy Blue]."
*Mussari, Mark. 2000. Color: the Material of Immateriality in Jens Bjørneboe's Blåmann. Edda, Winter 1999-2000.
O'Leary, Margaret Hayford. 1987. Post-war Norwegian fiction: Portraits of women in occupied Norway. PhD. Dissertation, Univ. of Wisconsin. Section focusing on the "German tarts" as seen in postwar Norwegian fiction includes a discussion of Bjørneboe's Under en Hårdere Himmel (Under a Harsher Sky).
Wandrup, Fredrik. 1988. "Jens Bjørneboe: The Cry that Fell Silent." Translated by Anne Born. News from the Top of the World, 1: 3-7. Focuses on Bj"rneboe's mythologizing of himself and suggests that it ultimately destroyed him.
Wasser, Frederick. 1994. Introduction to The Bird-Lovers, by Jens Bjørneboe. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 5-13.
Gravier, Maurice. 1987. "Une étrange cour martiale" (A strange court-martial). Europe, 64: 96-105. Chiefly about The Bird-Lovers.
Engelstad, Carl Fredrik. 1983. "Jens Bjørneboes Trilogie" (Jens Bjørneboe's trilogy). Ausblick, 33, no.1/2: 6-8.
Gut, Taja. 1985. "Erinnern gegen die Zeit. Anmerkungen zu Hemingway und Bjørneboe." Kasper Hauser (Die Kulturzeitschrift "Individualität") 8 (1985): 63-72.
Kreuzer, Helmut. 1971. "Existentielle Prosa, spiritueller Anarchismus: zum Augenblick der Freiheit von Jens Bjørneboe" (Existential prose, spiritual anarchism: on Moment of Freedom by Jens Bjørneboe). In Probleme des Erzahlens in der Weltliteratur (Narrative problems in world literature): Festschrift f&uuuml;r Kate Hamburger zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. Fritz Martini. Stuttgart: Klett, 348-364.
Kura, Karin. 1989. "‘Sozialer Individualismus’. Kleine Einführung in Jens Bjørneboes Sozialkritik" ("Social individualism": a brief introduction to Jens Bjørneboe's social criticism). Norrøna, Zeitschrift für Kultur, Geschicte und Politik der skandinavischen Länder (Lübeck), 5, 10: 19-21.
Masat, András. 1989. "Jens Bjørneboe und ‘der verrückte Ungar’: Zu einer Traditionslinie in der norwegischen Literatur anhand Bjørneboes Drama Semmelweis" (Jens Bjørneboe and "the mad Hungarian": on a strand of Norwegian literary tradition as seen in Bjørneboe's drama Semmelweis). In Über Brücken. Festschrift für Ulrik Groenke zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Knut Brynhildsvoll Hamburg: Buske Verlag, 381-395. Quotations from Bjørneboe's works and other Norwegian sources untranslated.
Munzar, J. 1988. "Jens Bjørneboe als Dramatiker im Kontext des norwegischen Dramas" (Jens Bjørneboe as a dramatist in the context of the Norwegian drama). Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 6: 125-134.
Wandrup, Fredrik. 1990. Jens Bjørneboe: der Mann, der Mythos und die Kunst; eine Biografie (Jens Bjørneboe: the man, the myth and the art; a biography). Deutch von Lothar Schneider. Vastorf bei Lüneberg: Merlin Verlag. Translation of Jens Bjørneboe: Mannen, Myten, Kunsten (Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1984).
Durova [Dourova], O.I. "Origins of Jens Bjørneboe's essays." Vetsnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Zhurnalistika (1999) No 1:109-115. (In Russian)
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