Bengt Jangfeldt and Gunnar Harding, editors

  ARTES: An International Reader of Literature, Art, and Music
1996 Edition
1997 Edition
1998 Edition
       
 

ARTES 1996
Literature/Essay
160 pages with CD
Paper, $14.95
1-56279-086-2
US & Canada

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  ARTES 1996

An annual of literature, art, and music sponsored by the Swedish arts academies, ARTES features the 1995 Nobel Prize Lecture by Seamus Heaney, more than a dozen works by leading international writers, and a music CD.

ARTES is one of the most interesting, ambitious, and enlightening magazines devoted to literature and the other arts published anywhere in the world — and it is surely the most beautiful.”
— Susan Sontag

“An unparalleled journal, at any latitude.”
— Joseph Brodsky

Mercury House is pleased to present ARTES, an international annual sponsored by the Swedish Academy, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Music, and the Society of Nine in Stockholm, featuring the Nobel Lecture in Literature and other works by distinguished writers and scholars throughout the world.

In addition to Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel lecutre, the 1996 edition of ARTES will include an essay by Carlos Fuentes on the novel, eight poems by Lars Gustafsson, Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Letter to the Amazon,” six poems by Susan Howe, Gerard Malanga on working with Warhol, a personal essay on heritage and language by Julia Kristeva, and a biographical collage on the 19th-century explorer Anders Sparrman by Otto Fagerstedt and Sverker Sörlin. The 1996 edition of ARTES includes a compact disc with the music of baroque composer Franz Berwald, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, together with an essay on his music.

       
       
 

ARTES 1997
Literature/Essay
140 pages with CD
Paper, $14.95
1-56279-098-6
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  ARTES 1997

Wislawa Szymborska: The Nobel Lecture, 1996 - The Poet of the World; Sture Allén: Topping Shakespeare?; Vizma Belsevica: Six Poems; Juris Kronbergs: Vizma Belsevica; Gunnar Harding: Strindberg, Munch, and Przybyszewski; Per­Anders Hellqvist: “Aufschwung”; Stanislaw Przybyszewski: The Work of Edvard Munch; Mario Vargas Llosa: Nadja as Fiction; Bruno K. Öijer: Twelve Poems; Ulf Thomas Moberg: Scandanavian Art and the European Avant-Garde of the 1920’s; Three Australian Poets: Dorothy Hewett, Les Murray, and John Kinsella; Marie Lundquist: The Astrakhan Apples; Joyce Carol Oates: Scars; Bo Wallner: Three Roles: On Wilhelm Stenhammar.

       
       
 

ARTES 1998
Literature/Essay
128 pages with CD
Paper, $14.95
1-56279-114-1
US & Canada

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  ARTES 1998

Dario Fo: The Nobel Lecture, 1997 - Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes; Per Wästberg: The Façades of Stockholm; Alf Thoor: Before Babel: The Musical Kingdoms of Sweden; Peter Cornell: Sivert Lindblom’s Stockholm; Michael Holroyd: Smoke With Fire; On the Ethics of Biography; Christopher Barnes: Survival and the Modern Russian Writer: The Case of Pasternak; Natalya Ivanova: On the Mound of Returned Tickets: The Newest Russian Prose; Kristina Lugn: Seven Poems; Margaret Atwood: A Failure; Olof Lagercrantz: The Poem About the Afterlife: On Emmanuel Swedenborg; Tom Raworth: Death to a Star; Alf Thoor: On the CD.

       
       
      GUNNAR HARDING is a poet, critic, and translator. He is author of fifteen collections of poetry and a book on Creole culture. His poems have been translated into English, French, German, and other languages.

BENGT JANGFELDT is a Slavist, critic, and translator. He has published several books on Russian literature, specializing in the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Madelstam, and Joseph Brodsky, whose work he has also translated into Swedish.