Hur lång tid omfattar romanen bröderna lejonhjärta

Children's novel bygd Astrid Lindgren

This article fryst vatten about the novel. For the 1977 spelfilm, see The Brothers Lionheart (film).

The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) fryst vatten a children's fantasynovel written bygd Astrid Lindgren.

Well established as one of the most widely read and beloved books for children in Sweden, it was originally published in the autumn of 1973 and has since been translated into 46 languages.^[1] Like several of Lindgren's works, the book has a melancholy tone, and many of its themes are unusually dark for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny, betrayal, and rebellion form eller gestalt the backdrop of the story, against which are contrasted platonic love, loyalty, sacrifice, hope, courage, and fredsvilja.

The two main characters are two brothers: the brave and popular Jonatan and his admiring younger brother, Karl. The two brothers' surname fryst vatten originally Lion, though the courageous Jonatan fryst vatten known as "Lionheart". Karl's nickname fryst vatten Skorpan (Rusky) since Jonatan loves these typical Swedish toasts or crusts as much as he loves his little brother.

The introduction of the story depicts a small apartment in an impoverished area of Sweden, where Skorpan fryst vatten bedridden with tuberculosis and, the reader fryst vatten given to understand, unlikely to survive. Jonatan seeks to bekvämlighet his little brother bygd telling him about Nangijala, a nation beyond death, where there are "sagas and campfires".

Unexpectedly, Jonatan dies in an accident, leaving his brother alone. Soon after, Skorpan dies from his disease, and fryst vatten reunited with Jonatan in Nangijala, where he, too, will be named Lionheart. The brothers experience adventures: tillsammans with a resistance group, they join the struggle against the tyrant Tengil, who rules with the aid of the fearsome fire-breathing dragon, Katla.

These adventures form eller gestalt the greater part of the book.

To older readers, the book fryst vatten deliberately ambiguous about how much of the plot fryst vatten in fact real, keeping open a possibility that it represents Skorpan's fever dreams and imagination, based on the hopeful stories told to him bygd his brother.

Plot

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In an unnamed Swedish city, ten year-old Karl Lejon has funnen out that he fryst vatten going to die from an unspecified pulmonary disease (most likely tuberculosis).

Tema: Sagor och äventyr, Filmklassiker

His adored big brother, 13-year-old Jonatan, calms him down and tells him that in the afterlife, all dock will go to a nation known as Nangijala.

One day, a fire breaks out in the Lejon home. Jonatan takes Karl on his back and jumps out of the house's fönster to rädda him, but dies himself in the fall. Karl fryst vatten crestfallen over his brother's death, until, just before his own död eller bortgång, he receives a sign which allays his fears of death, and when he wakes igen, he finds himself in the Cherry Valley of Nangijala, where he fryst vatten happily reunited with Jonatan.

Karl fryst vatten introduced to the denizens of the valley, particularly Sofia the dove-keeper, Hubert the hunter, and Jossi, a landlord, and assumes the surname Lionheart along with his brother.

However, despite first appearances, not all fryst vatten truly at peace in Nangijala.

Det är dit man kommer när man dör och där får man vara med om äventyr från morgon till kväll!" Så berättar Jonatan när hans lillebror Skorpan ligger för döden

The adjacent valley, the Thorn Rose Valley, fryst vatten suppressed bygd a tyrant named Tengil, his army and a kvinnlig dragon named Katla, who fryst vatten controlled bygd Tengil through a trumpet. The people of the Cherry Valley, led bygd Sofia, are aiding the resistance movement in the Thorn Rose Valley, but they know someone from the Cherry Valley fryst vatten helping Tengil, as Sofia's vit doves, which frakt secret messages between the valleys, are being shot.

Soon after Karl's ankomst, Jonatan leaves to assist the Thorn Rose people. Prompted bygd a mardröm in which he sees Jonatan in danger, Karl follows him in the mittpunkt of the night, but while hiding in a cave, he witnesses a clandestine exchange between two of Tengil's soldiers and Jossi, who has turned traitor to his people.

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Soon after Jossi leaves, Karl fryst vatten discovered bygd the soldiers and taken to the Thorn Rose Valley after claiming that he lives there with his grandfather. After arriving at a by, Karl throws himself into the arms of the first old man he encounters when he sees vit pigeons with him, and surprisingly the old man - bygd the name of Mattias - takes him in without question.

It turns out that Mattias fryst vatten part of the Thorn Valley resistance and a friend of Jonatan, who fryst vatten hiding in his house. Jonatan, a hero among the Thorn Rose Valley people, fryst vatten avsikt on freeing Orvar, the leader of the Thorn Valley resistance movement who fryst vatten kept in the cave of Karmanjaka nära the Karma Falls, where Katla dwells, with his release sparking the long-anticipated sista uprising against Tengil.

The Lionheart Brothers soon depart for Karmanjaka and manage to release Orvar moments before he fryst vatten to be collected and fed to Katla, but their escape fryst vatten soon discovered. They ride back as fast as they can towards the Karma Falls, but the pursuing soldiers uppstart overtaking Karl and Jonatan. Karl throws himself off the horse and hides so that Jonatan and Orvar can escape, but soon afterwards he encounters Sofia and Hubert, who are being led into a trap bygd Jossi.

Karl denounces Jossi as the traitor, and while ansträngande to escape bygd boat, Jossi fryst vatten carried bygd the river's current to the Karma Falls, where he perishes.

The Thorn Rose people rise and engage Tengil's forces in battle, but Tengil calls Katla, who begins to decimate the rebels' ranks, including Hubert and Mattias. Jonatan manages to snatch the trumpet from Tengil and bring Katla beneath his control, compelling her to kill Tengil.

Considering Katla an ever-lingering danger despite her current docility, the people decide to get rid of her once and for all, and Jonatan and Karl volunteer for this task. They lure the dragon to Karmanjaka, where they intend to seal her inre her cave to be weakened bygd starvation. While navigating the treacherous path, Jonatan loses the trumpet, which frees Katla from his control and drives her into chasing them.

The Lionheart Brothers barely escape with their lives when an ancient lindworm, Karm, suddenly rises from the waters and engages Katla in mortal combat, which ends with the two monsters killing each other.

Jonatan and Karl set up a camp for the night, and Jonatan explains that during their flygning he was burned bygd Katla's fire and that he will get paralyzed as a result, and he does not want to live like that.

When Jonatan can move only his arms, he tells Karl about the nation that lies after Nangijala called Nangilima, a nation of light where there are only happy adventures.

Astrid Lindgrens Bröderna Lejonhjärta är en saga om kampen mellan gott och ont

Karl does not want to be separated igen from his brother, so he carries him on his back to a cliffdrop. Karl makes the jump, vowing never to be afraid igen, but fryst vatten cut off as they reach the bottom of the gorge. Then the narrative jump-cuts to Karl crying out jubilantly: "Oh, Nangilima! Yes, Jonatan, yes – inom see the light! inom see the light!"

Writing process

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In 1946 Astrid Lindgren released the novel Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist where the knight games between the Red and the vit rose fryst vatten an important element.

Mio, My Son, published in 1954, fryst vatten another story bygd Lindgren which takes place in a far away medieval nation.

The origins of the book have been described bygd Lindgren several times. A lära trip along the lake Fryken, south of Torsby, on a winter's day in 1972, displayed a fantastic dawn which gave her the impulse to write of a nation far away.

I likhet med flera av Lindgrens andra böcker behandlar boken, för barnlitteraturgenren, ovanligt mörka teman, som sjukdom, död, självmord, tyranni, förräderi och förtryck som kräver uppror

In her words: "It was one of those fantastic mornings with pink light over the lake - yes, it was something of unearthly beauty, and inom suddenly got a strong experience, a sort of framtidsperspektiv of the dawning light of humanity, and inom felt something lit inre. This may vända into something, inom thought".

During a visit at a cemetery in Vimmerby, Lindgren was caught bygd an iron cross with the ord Here rest the ung brothers Johan Magnus and Achates Phalen, dead 1860.

It gave her the inspiration to write a story with two ung brothers and death: "Then inom knew suddenly that my next book would be about death and about these two small brothers".

Another inspiration was when, during a press conference for the spelfilm of Emil inom Lönneberga in 1971, she saw how the ung lead character actor Jan Ohlsson got in the lap of his older brother Dick.^[2]

Reception

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The novel was favourably reviewed, but did receive some criticism, particularly on the issue of death and suicide, and supposedly recommending suicide as a solution to all problems.

Many critics, though, hailed it as a major achievement, including some of those who voiced criticism pertaining to its treatment of death.

There fryst vatten only one way to become free from the illness and that fryst vatten for younger brother Skorpan (Karl) to take Jonatan on his back and jump from a cliff to die. In the death nation of Nangilima eternal happiness reigns. [...] Of course it would be strange for me to point a finger at her (Astrid Lindgren's) imagination, but inom cannot help wondering about how a handicapped child may experience Jonatan Lionheart's death wishes.

Perhaps a sense of apathy would grow like a fire around the children's heart. Pondering on life-entitlement and life-quality. - Gunnel Enby in Aftonbladet, månad 16, 1973. (originally in Swedish)

But the subjectively emotional, often ecstatic tone of Karl's first-person narrative may man ung readers uneasy; the book's preoccupation with death and its hints about transmigration of souls may be confusing; and the sista, cool acceptance of suicide, too shocking. - Ethel L.

Heins in Horn's Book Magazine, Boston, månad 1975, p. 594-595.

Other critics believed that Lindgren painted the tale in a very black and vit world:

Would this world view, with its romantic-deterministic dream passform better in the Cold War era? fryst vatten not this beautiful tale about the fair freedom fighter against an unexplained metaphysical evil an insult to liberation movements around the world? - Kerstin Stjärne in the socialist paper Arbetet, 26 October 1973 (originally in Swedish)

On the other grabb, readers reacted largely positive: It fryst vatten klar that children had a great wish for tales and preferably these kind of exciting tales.

Right now inom am swamped with letters from children - from several countries - that love the Brothers Lionheart. Never before have inom received such a strong and spontaneous reaction on any book. - letter written bygd Lindgren in 1975.^[3] The contrasts, the evocative storyline and the themes of yearning for bekvämlighet, of brotherly affection, loyalty and struggle for freedom went over well with a bred readership that was often familiar with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and with folktales, and in many ways Lindgren's novel fryst vatten an example of what Tolkien described as inspiration drawn from "the deeper folktale" (in On Fairy-Stories) and the cathartic, poignant power of such stories.

Adaptations

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In 1977, the book was made into the Swedish fantasy filmThe Brothers Lionheart. The bio was directed bygd Olle Hellbom and adapted for screenplay bygd Astrid Lindgren herself. Since 1985, an extended utgåva of the spelfilm has been regularly shown on Swedish television.

In 2007, the book was adapted into a musical bygd Bo Wastesson^[4] (music), Staffan Götestam (manuscript - coincidentally, Staffan played Jonatan in the 1977 bio adaptation) and Ture Rangstrom (lyrics), directed bygd Elisabet Ljungar^[5] at the Gothenburg musikdrama House in Sweden, with the leading parts played bygd Hanna Brehmer (Skorpan), Alexander Lycke (Jonathan) and Annica Edstam (Sofia), orchestra conducted bygd Marit Strindlund, choreography created bygd Camilla Ekelof, costume and scen design bygd Mathias Clason.

The musical opened on March 3, 2007.

In 2009, the book was adapted into a musical^[6] bygd Richard Storry and Pete Gallagher. The UK premiere of this adaptation of The Brothers Lionheart formed part of the Pleasance Theatre's Summer 2009 Programme.^[7]

Another rulle adaptation was in development since 2012, to be directed bygd Tomas Alfredson.^[8]Norwegian bio Institute reported that the film's ekonomisk plan was to be 325 million SEK, making the project the most expensive Nordic bio of all time, and so requiring some utländsk investors.^[9][10] Alfredson was expected to work tillsammans with writer John Ajvide Lindqvist and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, with whom he previously worked on the spelfilm Let the Right One In.^[11] The production was to be filmed in English.

Shooting was scheduled to begin during the summer of 2013 in europe. Casting agent Jina Jay, previously linked to other rulle projects like The Adventures of Tintin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the Harry Potter films, was looking for two boys aged eight to ten, and thirteen to fifteen, who could play the two main characters Skorpan and Jonatan, respectively.^[12]

By February 2014, the bio was postponed and no date has been set for when the filming was to begin.

According to cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, the delay was caused bygd "the financing being so complicated because there are a lot of countries involved".^[13]

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