The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg

Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101870150
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious at being tied to the earth and broke her way up into space to reach right to heaven in her wild, boundless vanity.

Chapter 10

The Net and Loneliness

Ester Blenda Nordström had an older brother named Frithiof. He was for the most part her exact opposite. Quiet and stationary as a barnacle. A dentist. But he devoted all his free time to collecting butterflies. Over the years, he became the greatest of all experts in Sweden, and his career had its crowning touch from 1935 to 1941 when, with Albert Tullgren, he wrote the magnificent Svenska fjärilar (Swedish Butterflies), unsurpassed to this day.

He never said much about his mysterious sister. But there is one place in John Landquist’s memoirs where Frithiof flits by in an obscure comment about her life. Professor and literary critic Landquist had been head over heels in love with Ester Blenda years earlier, as, clearly, had his wife at that time, the feminist writer Elin Wägner. Ester Blenda had lived with them for several years in her youth. Landquist writes, “Years later, after her death, her brother Dr. Frithiof Nordström, the famous butterfly expert, told me that she remained strict in erotic matters all her life.” Whatever he may have meant by that.

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