Early life

Jens Bjørneboe was natural around 1920, in Kristiansand. Within 1943 Bjørneboe fled to Sweden to avoid forced labor. When you took this exile, he met a German Jew Lisel Funk, who would late be his 1st married woman.

Literary career

Bjørneboe wrote the total of socially critical novels. Among victims were Ere a Cock Crows (Før Hanen Galer, 1952), Jonas (1955) and A Evil Shepherd (Den Onde Hyrde, 1960).

His better operate is by several considered to become a trilogy A History of Bestiality, consisting of the novels Moment of Freedom (Frihetens Øyeblikk, 1966), Powderhouse (Kruttårnet, 1969) and A Silence (Stillheten, 1973).

Bjørneboe besides wrote the total of plays, among victims were A Bird Lovers (Fugleelskerne, 1966), Semmelweis (1968) and Amputation (Amputasjon, 1970).

Within 1967, he was convicted for publishing the pornographic novel Without the Stitch (Utnut en tråd, 1966), & a novel was confiscated & banned. the test, nonetheless, mass produced a book a immense profits (around foreign languages), & Bjørneboe's fiscal problems were (for the time existence being) solved. After, the Danish director named Annelise Meineche based a film on that. It received bad reviews.

His endure major act was a novel A Sharks (Haiene, 1974).

Death and legacy

Fallowing by having struggled with depression and alcoholism for a long period, he committed suicide on May 9th, 1976.

Bjorneboe was described within his Aftenposten obituary as: "For 25 years Jens Bjørneboe was a center of unrest in Norwegian cultural life: Passionately concerned with contemporary problems in nearly all their aspects, controversial and with the courage to be so, with a conscious will to carry things to extremes. He was not to be pigeonholed. He dropped in on many philosophical and political movements, but couldn't settle down in any of them. He was a wanderer, always traveling on in search of what was for him the truth -- and he was a free man, in that he always ruthlessly followed his innermost intentions. Perhaps he could say, like Kierkegaard, that "subjectivity is truth," for he knew no other guide than his personal conviction and his own impulses -- but he related not merely to himself; his deepest concern was society and the person in society. His subjective grasp always involved the totality."

Bibliography

Novels
Duke Hans (Hertug Hans, 1972) Ere a Cock Crows (Før hanen galer, 1952) Jonas (1955) Under the Harsher Sky (Under nut Hårdere Himmel, 1957) Winter around Bellapalma (Vinter i personally Bellapalma, 1958) Little Son Blue (Blåmann, 1959) The Evil Shepherd (Den Onde Hyrde, 1960) a Dream & the Wheel (Drømmen og Hjulet, 1964) Moment of Freedom (Frihetens Øyeblikk, 1966) Without the Stitch (Utnut en Tråd, 1966) Without the Stitch Two (Udnut en Trævl Two, 1968) Powderhouse (Kruttårnet, 1969) The Silence (Stillheten, 1973) The Sharks (Haiene, 1974)

Plays

Many Happy Is restored (Til Lykke Med Dagen, 1965) The Bird Lovers (Fugleelskerne, 1966) Semmelweis (1968) Amputation (Amputasjon, 1970). Reprinted when: Amputations: Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle, by Jens Bjørneboe, translated from Norwegian by Solrun Hoaas & Esther Greenleaf Mürer. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books. The Torgersen Pack (Tilfellet Torgersen, 1972) Blue Jeans (Dongery, 1976)

Poems

Poems (Dikt, 1951) Ariadne (1953) The Swell City (Den Store By, 1958)

Essay collections

Norway, our Norway (Norge, mitt Norge, 1968) We That Loved United states of america (Vi som elsket Amerika, 1970) Police & Lawlessness (Politi og Anarki, 1972)