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Sven Oskar Lindqvist (28 March 1932 – 14 May 2019) was a prolific Swedish author whose 35 books range from essays, aphorisms, autobiography, and documentary prose to travel and reportage. He was educated at Stockholm University, and spent a year as a cultural attaché in Beijing, but spent most of his life as a writer, known for his ...
Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist is a historical and philosophical investigation of the roots of European colonialism, racism, and genocide in Africa. The book takes its title from the infamous phrase used by the character Kurtz in Joseph Conrad 's 1899 Heart of Darkness.
For fifty years Sven Lindqvist’s books have been the centre of literary and political controversy in Sweden. Sven Lindqvist started his literary career aged 23 with A Proposal (1955), an essay in 39 short, numbered chapters on his experience of manual labour in a Swedish creosote factory.
May 14, 2019 · Dr. Sven Lindqvist was a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction. He held a PhD in History of literature from Stockholm University (his thesis, in 1966, was on Vilhelm Ekelund) and a 1979 honorary doctorate from Uppsala University.
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“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven ...
Dec 19, 2023 · The Swedish writer Sven Lindqvist (1932-2019) is best known to English-speaking audiences for his clear-eyed dissection of colonial violence in Exterminate all the Brutes and for his account, in A History of Bombing, of the way that techniques and ideologies of extermination, perpetrated on colonial subjects, were reimported to Europe.12 In Dig ...
Jan 1, 1997 · Sven Lindqvist develops this theme as he traces the imperial history of European colonialism and condenses it to a single sentence: "Exterminate all the brutes." European world expansion, he claims, and the employed tactics of extermination are the truths we like to forget.
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