Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (October 4, 1894 – December 19, 1954) was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer. He was born in Tossjö (now in Ängelholm Municipality) in Scania and died at Ribbingsfors Manor in northern Västergötland.
He is best known for his Viking saga novel Röde Orm (titled The Long Ships in English). His essays are mainly about literary and historical subjects. A selection from them was translated into English in 1950 and ...
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (October 4, 1894 – December 19, 1954) was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer. He was born in Tossjö (now in Ängelholm Municipality) in Scania and died at Ribbingsfors Manor in northern Västergötland.
He is best known for his Viking saga novel Röde Orm (titled The Long Ships in English). His essays are mainly about literary and historical subjects. A selection from them was translated into English in 1950 and published as A Walk to an Ant Hill and other essays.
In addition, among his nearly 100 essays, he wrote 1 about race, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the theories of Gobineau. For example, in Silversköldarna ("The Silver Shields", 1931) Bengtsson praises Gobineau as a genius and states that "while the noble blood dries up or is diluted, the feudal structure of society decays, which has maintained a youthful vitality in every limb: the state organism shrivels (...) the hydra of mediocrity and democracy cheerily crawls out of its den". All...
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