August Blanche (1811 - 1868) was born in Stockholm outside marriage – his father, Mårten Christoffer Bergvall, was a priest and his mother, Katarina Hedberg, a servant girl.
As a novelist Blanche was influenced by Eugene Sue and Alexandre Dumas (sr.); Den broderade plånboken (1845, The embroidered wallet) was a social in the spirit of Honore de Balzac. He produced among others such routine novels as the melodramatic Vålnaden (1847), Banditen (1848; Engl. tr. The Bandit, 1872), which had as a background the revolutionary France of 1848, and Första älskarinnan (1848), about a woman torn between two rivals and her rise from humble origins to riches.
Buy his Swedish works from Amazon
No comments:
Post a Comment