The Great Enigma by Transtromer, Tomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page Air mail letter Copyright Contents Foreword 17 POEMS

I Prelude II Autumnal Archipelago,Storm Evening—Morning Ostinato III Five Stanzas to Thoreau Gogol Sailor’s Yarn Strophe and Counter-Strophe Agitated Meditation The Stones Context Morning Approach There Is Peace in the Surging Prow Midnight Turning Point IV Song V Elegy Epilogue

SECRETS ON THE WAY

I Solitary Swedish Houses The Man Who Awoke with Singing over the Roofs Weather Picture The Four Temperaments Caprichos II Siesta Izmir at Three O’ Clock III Secrets on the Way Tracks Kyrie IV A Man from Benin Balakirev’s Dream (1905) V After an Attack VI The Journey's Formulae

PRISON

Prison

THE HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN

I Couple The Tree and the Sky Face to Face Ringing Through the Wood November with Nuances of Noble Fur II The Journey C Major Noon Thaw When We Saw the Islands Again From the Hilltop III Espresso IV The Palace Syros In the Nile Delta V A Dark Swimming Figure Lament Allegro The Half-Finished Heaven Nocturne A Winter Night

BELLS AND TRACKS

Portrait with Commentary Lisbon From an African Diary (1963) Crests Hommages Winter’s Formulae Morning Birds About History Alone On the Outskirts of Work After Someone’s Death Oklahoma Summer Plain Downpour over the Interior Under Pressure Open and Closed Spaces An Artist in the North In the Open Slow Music

SEEING IN THE DARK

The Name A Few Minutes Breathing Space July By the River Outskirts Traffic Night Duty The Open Window Preludes Upright The Bookcase

PATHS

To Friends Behind a Frontier From the Thaw of 1966 Sketch in October Further In The Outpost Along the Radius Looking Through the Ground December Evening 1972 The Dispersed Congregation Late May Elegy

BALTICS

Baltics

THE TRUTHBARRIER

I Citoyens The Crossing-Place The Clearing How the Late Autumn Night Novel Begins To Mats and Laila From the Winter of 1947 II Schubertiana III The Gallery IV Below Zero The Boat—The Village The Black Mountains Homeward After a Long Drought A Place in the Forest Funchal

THE WILD MARKET SQUARE

I Brief Pause in the Organ Recital From March 1979 Memories Look at Me Winter’s Gaze The Station II Answers to Letters Icelandic Hurricane The Blue Wind-Flowers The Blue House III Satellite Eyes Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Black Postcards Fire-Jottings Many Steps Postludium IV Dream Seminar Codex Carillon Molokai

FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

The Forgotten Captain Six Winters The Nightingale in Badelunda Early May Stanzas Berceuse Streets in Shanghai Deep in Europe Leaﬂet The Indoors Is Endless Vermeer Romanesque Arches Epigram Female Portrait, 19th Century Medieval Motif Air Mail Madrigal Golden Wasp

THE SAD GONDOLA

April and Silence National Insecurity A Page of the Nightbook The Sad Gondola Landscape with Suns November in the Former DDR From July 1990 The Cuckoo Three Stanzas Like Being a Child Two Cities The Light Streams In Night Journey Haiku From the Island, 1860 Silence Midwinter A Sketch from 1844

THE GREAT ENIGMA

Eagle Rock Façades November Snow Is Falling Signatures Haiku

MEMORIES LOOK AT ME

Memories Museums Primary School The War Libraries Grammar School Exorcism Latin

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