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3 unusual facts about Edith Södergran


Edith Södergran

Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain, which admittedly was written after the war but is set in a sanatorium during these years gives a picture of the intellectually lively atmosphere.

Samlade dikter ("Collected Poems") was released in 1949 in Helsinki and contained everything that had previously come out in book form plus some of the unpublished poems, of which a dozen would not be printed again until fifty years later.

At the beginning of October 1911, roughly three years after the start of her illness, Edith and her mother travelled to Arosa in Switzerland but even there she did not get on especially well.



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