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The Ripper [Swedish] (Adolf Paul, 1892)
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The Ripper [Swedish] (Adolf Paul, 1892)
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Wednesday, 31 May 2000 - 08:34 pm |        | Paul, Adolf, 1863-1943
"The Ripper"(uppskäraren)
Åbo, 1892
Approx. 160 pp.
This book was originally mentioned in Rumbelow as one of the first major fictions to be written on the Ripper ... this was later picked up by Coville/Lucanio in their recent book "JTR in Popular Entertainment."
I obtained copies of this piece in August of last year and was only able to make out the fact that it appeared to be a collection of plays, or at least a fiction done in play-like dialogue form.
The original resides in the Royal Library of Stockholm, and now, thanks to Ingemar Nilssen (translator of "Hwem ar Jack Upskaskaren"), we've got some more information on this piece:
Quote:I've read the book now and the only mention of JtR is on page 11,where the author finds, in a Berlin street, a book called JtR's diary. The content of this diary is described in the chapter "Jack the Rippers notisbok". It has
nothing to do with JtR but rather describes the author's views on vivisection!
The chapter "Vanitas" is about a homosexual liasion between a priest and a schoolboy in Weimar, Germany and "Oedipus i norden" a mother-son incest story from Scandinavia, both couched in the circumspect language of the time.
"Crimen laese majestatis" and the play "Man säger att ---" are some kind of love stories which I, frankly, could not make head nor tail of.
All in all, I think you can safely discard this book from the JtR collection! Sorry, but that is my honest opinion.
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