Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] Famous writer and naturalist, journalist, former collaborator and translator of the environmentalist Al Gore, since 2009 Sjöberg is officially also an artist and performer: the 53rd Venice Biennale wanted to expose his substantial collection of hoverflies - flies - created over many years of passionate research on the island of Runmarö, in the Stockholm archipelago. Among other things, these researches have also given the author the Ig-Nobel, a prize that the Harvard university confers to the most bizarre and original scientific studies. Sjöberg also dedicated his first successful book, Flugfällan, released in Sweden in 2004 and now translated into fourteen languages. Together with The art of the fugue, soon to be released also in Italy, always for Iperborea, the two agile volumes constitute an unusual and tasty “portrait of the entomologist as a young man”, an autobiography woven like a precious collection of curious historical anecdotes- scientific ranging from the universal dimension to the personal dimension of the author himself or of strictly known Scandinavian naturalists of the caliber of Linnaeus, René Malaise and Gustaf Eisen
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Frederik Sjöberg, The naturalist Frederik Sjöberg in search of a writing without defined landing places |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 3-3 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | IL MANIFESTO |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- narrazione
- ricerca
- storia naturale