Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Bjørneboe (October 9 1920–May 9 1976) was a Norwegian painter, dramatist, essayist and novelist. His first published work was Poems (Dikt) in 1951. He is widely considered to be one of Norway's most important post-war authors.

Death and legacy

After having struggled with depression and alcoholism for a long time, he committed suicide on May 9th, 1976.

Related Topics:
Depression - Alcoholism - Suicide - May 9th - 1976

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Bjorneboe was described in 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."

Related Topics:
Obituary - Philosophical - Political - Kierkegaard

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