Description
In Knut Larsson’s hands, Aniara is an unusual and exciting space adventure. The story is at once a warning of despair in the age of nuclear weapons and ecological threats, and perhaps the fullest expression of Harry Martinson’s lifelong project to show us man’s attempt to see himself and his role in creation. Aniara was first published in 1956 to great acclaim. But perhaps it is only today that the space epic fully emerges as one of the most artistically and intellectually challenging works of our time.
Harry Martinson himself described the book in 1957 as follows: ‘We think it is enough to leave some of the practical details of living together to the politicians. But we must all feel our complicity in the world situation. We need to feel our membership of the cosmos and our co-responsibility when destruction is unleashed.’ Knut Larsson has previously published the comic books Canimus (2001), Lokmannen (2003) and Krokodilstaden (2008) with Kartago Förlag. He has also published his comics in magazines such as Galago, Nemi and Seriekonst Tabloid, albeit somewhat irregularly. Surrealism, dreams and bizarre actions often characterise Larsson’s comics.
