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In Swedish author Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s Tony trilogy, the young female protagonist Tony Hastfehr remains passive and silent, which leads to anti-climaxes in the narrative.1 This may seem nega-tive or even anti-feminist at first glance, but can her silence have its own potential?
Agnes von Krusenstjerna (who died in 1940) left among a multitude of shorter writings three major works: a trilogy generally referred to as "The Tony Books": the individual titles of which are "Tony Grows Up," "Tony's Apprenticeship," and "Tony's Final Apprenticeship"; "The Misses Von Pahlen," a family chronicle in seven volumes; and "Poor
Her breakthrough work was her trilogy Tony växer upp, Tonys läroår, and Tonys sista läroar, 1922-1926, about a nobleman’s daughter, Tony Hastfehr, who succumbs to a hereditary mental illness. It is based on Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s own experience, and its realism attracted much attention.
Dec 9, 2022 · The aim of this article is to explore the queer possibilities of the silence in the depiction of the protagonist’s love life in Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s Tony trilogy (1922–1926).
Agnes von Krusenstjerna depicts Tony Hastfehr’s childhood and young teenage years, her friendships, sexual awakening and experiences of psychological illness in an open-hearted and psychologically clear-sighted manner.
- October 9, 1894
- March 10, 1940
Works. Agnes von Krusenstjerna. She debuted as a writer with the girls' novel Ninas dagbok (1917) and made her breakthrough with the Tony novel series (1922–26) about a girl's development in a noble environment. The Tony series was greatly controversial, as it depicted sexual themes as well as mental disorders, which made Krusenstjerna ...
Agnes von Krusenstjerna (October 9, 1894 – March 10, 1940) was a Swedish writer and noble. She was a controversial writer whose books challenged the moral standards of the day and was the center of a great literary controversy of the freedom of speech.
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