Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space

Martinson, Harry. Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space. Swedish, 1956. Hugh Macdiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert, trans. New York: Knopf, 1963. New York: Avon, 1976, as #24 in Equinox SF Rediscovery Series.

Martinson, Harry. Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space. Translated from the Swedish by Stephan Klass and Lief Sjöberg. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press (Three Oaks Farm, Box 1240), 1999, 157 pp. (From Lindow review; see below.)

Epic poem in 103 cantos. Avon title page says their English version was "Adapted from the Swedish," but see p. 54 for note that canto "42 was omitted, in agreement with the author, as untranslatable"—which augurs well for close, authorized trans. elsewhere. In his introd., Tord Hall says that Aniara is "a symbolic poem about our own age, and the symbols have been taken from modern science" (vii). See for motif of the generation starship. See this Category, citation for R. Heinlein, "Universe"; see under Drama, entry for K.-B. Blomdahl's opera Aniara. Note also the 2018 film ANIARA.[1]

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The 1999 version[2] is reviewed by Sandy Lindow (with a response by Richard McKinney), SFRA Review #240 (June 1999): 30-31.

Addition, RDE, 28Sep19, thanks to IC-R; RDE finishing, 12Aug23