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Agnar Mykle. The song of the red ruby.
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Agnar Mykle. The song of the red ruby. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1961.
“The Ruby” – and the court case that followed its publication – makes up an important
part of Norwegian post-war history. Agnar Mykle and the publisher of Gyldendal
Harald Grieg were accused of publishing immoral and obscene material. On an order
from the Oslo city court in 1957, the entire remaining printing of the book was
confiscated, though Mykle and Grieg were acquitted. The year after, the confiscation
itself was also overturned by the Supreme Court.
The story of the young Ask Burlefot’s road through shame, defeats and triumphs
towards a deeper and more honest understanding of himself, opened the eyes of an
entire generation. The novel is an intense and vital bildungsroman, rich in youthful
hubris and lust for life, but also with harrowing soul searching and self-contempt.
Agnar Mykle (1915-1994) is one of the most celebrated and
controversial authors in modern Norwegian literature. His
most famous novel is THE SONG OF THE RED RUBY,
which was confiscated on the city court’s order in 1956 due
to its allegedly obscene, sexually explicit content. The
verdict was overturned the year after by the Supreme
Court.
Born in Trondheim in 1915, Mykle worked for two years
as a school teacher in North Norway, before moving to
Bergen to study economics at the newly founded Norwegian School of Economics. In
1942 he married Jane.
Mykle had his first short story printed in a magazine in 1945, and made his debut three
years later with the short story collection The Rope Ladder, which was well received. In
the meantime he had studied puppetryin Paris together with Jane (they published a
book on puppetry in 1954). Mykle was starting to gain fame, also for his newspaper
writings.
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