You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search. The question has been variously debated. Both forms strive to render the process of perception by relying on an initial sense impression to which meaning is attributed by organizing the narrative description in terms not obeying logic or earlier perceptive experience.
Not surprisingly, it is mainly Stella Kleve who has caught the interest of the scholars. Det moderna genombrottets enfant terrible Lingebrandt ; Stella Kleve.
Recently, both Ney and Lingebrandt have picked up the gauntlet in their studies dedicated to Kleve. Indeed, this avowal, present in the first part of her two autobiographical works, Uppfostran och inflytande: Malling ; Education and Influence: makes of the Swedish Mathilda Malling, next to Herman Bang, one of the few Scandinavian authors to have spoken of themselves as impressionist writers.
Let us take a closer look at the circumstances regarding this self-definition. Malling During our conversation we speak of religion, the sufferings of the human kind, the sufferings of innocent animals — nothing original, but I, who, above all, am an impressionist and an objective narrator, render, as usual, all his utterances graphically, touched and deeply flattered by all these profound confidences. Unfortunately, they have all been lost or destroyed Ney a: Kleve, on the other hand, in an article entitled Om efterklangs- och indignations- litteraturen Kleve b; On the Literature of Indignation and Reverberation , presented Bang to the Swedish readers as a modern writer who deserved their attention.
As a writer I admired him immensely and I still find that he — the way he is — with all his weaknesses and assets — is one of the most haunting, peculiar and convincing writers of fiction of all times in Scandinavia. As I have already mentioned, he was very much aware of it himself and made no secret of it. But of course no one can make his peculiarities their own and my fault, inexperienced as I was, is to have made an attempt at it.
