(.) (T)here are passages in which his conception justifies itself and the words radiate a kind of austere but delicate simplicity. "His business as a poet does not include the development of new principles of cosmology or the invention of thought systems but is rather concerned with details which will make credible whatever cosmology or thought systems he adopts.Nobel Prize material ? Surely not, whatever allowances we make for the translation." - Keith Sagar, Sunday Times (.) (B)etween the giggles are vast expanses of inanity. The treatment will strike even a reader wholly unfamiliar with science-fiction as deficient in imaginative force and originality. "(T)he high seriousness of this theme evaporates in the intense-inane of Mr Martinson's imagination.More precisely, it is an anti-epic: heroic connotations are inappropriate for a work better described as an elegiac song cycle working variations on the disappearance of the human species, a premonitory mourning ritual for Earth" - Geoffrey O'Brien, The New York Review of Books (.) Aniara is an epic of extinction, conceived at a moment when extinction had become to seem not only possible but perhaps imminent. "The more recent translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg is more faithful to Martinson's formal schemes and is said to be more accurate and somewhat more complete, but the MacDiarmid-Schubert version is more persuasive as English poetry.Aniara was made into a film, directed by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja (2018)ī : odd piece of work, but has its moments.
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