Harry Martinson - Vägen till Klockrike

Wandering the endless gravel roads, through dense pine forest and down to cool lakes, is Bolle, a former cigar maker. Being a vagrant means avoiding the police, begging without provoking anyone, and handling people's fear. But it is also an idea of a life in freedom.

In Vägen till Klockrike we meet a Sweden being fundamentally remade by industrialization. With great concreteness, Harry Martinson describes a vanished world and lost ideals, themes that feel just as current today as they did in 1948, when the book first came out.

Harry Martinson (1904-1978) is one of the portal figures of Swedish literature. He received a large number of prizes, including the 1974 Nobel Prize, which he shared with Eyvind Johnson. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1949, and from 1929 to 1940 he was married to Moa Martinson.