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| | Verner von Heidenstam |
 | | Heidenstam often chose national themes for his novels and his great neoromantic rival was Selma Lagerlöf, the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1909. |
 | | His first novel, ENDYMION (1889), was set in Damascus, and expressed the author's fear of the decline of Orient culture due to European influences. |
 | | It was followed by a pamphlet, RENÄSSANS (1890), the prose-and-verse novel HANS ALIENIUS (1892), in which the protagonist, a wanderer, depicts his problematic relationship with his father, and DIKTER (1895), in which the declamatory and recitative tone do not hide Heidenstam's wishes to be respected as a national poet. |
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