Lagerlöf’s Legacy : A Hundred Years of Writing the Nation

How can it be that an early 20th-century classic Swedish children’s text deals with such up-to-the-minute 21st-century concerns as the importance of preventing ecological disaster? Björn Sundmark’s brilliant and inspiring reading of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in light of the work of Peter Kemp on citizenship of the world also looks at new interpretations of this classic book and identifies its true heir not in Sweden but in Denmar