A preface to a 2005 Italian edition claims that the title comes from ancient Greek ἀνιαρός, "sad, despairing", plus special resonances that the sound "a" had for Martinson. Martinson came up with the word years before writing the work while reading astronomer Arthur Eddington, then giving it the meaning as the "name for the space in which the atoms moves". In a 1997 Swedish edition of Aniara, literary scholar Johan Wrede writes that the neologism “Aniara” is Harry Martinson's own invention. It was adapted into an opera in 1959 and a Swedish feature film in 2018. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956.Īniara has been translated to around twenty languages. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. Aniara (Swedish: '''Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum''' ) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956.
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