DET LITTERÄRA STOCKHOLM

Lampans kväll; mässingskranens dropp gamla Köket, Maria Trappgränd.
Spårvagnen kvider och ylar vid
Hornsgatans puckel,
och min morbror kommer just in genom dörren – hatten
nerböjd i fyrtiotalets skuggor: i hans upphetsade händer löper Gunder just i mål på Stadion; fönstren tänds på andra sidan gatan, och han kränger av sig ytterkvällen, fylld av svårmod och regn, och hänger den droppande på en galge, stryker håret tillrätta med fingrarna och går halvfull över golvet.

Ur diktsamlingen "Elegi över en lördagkväll på söder" 1962
Av GÖSTA FRIBERG. f 1936

I Gösta Fribergs poesi och prosa finns ofta självbiografiska inslag. Stor betydelse i hans diktning har barndomens Södermalm. Som barn bodde han på Nedre Ragvaldsgatan, som idag heter Pustegränds och i dikten får namnet Maria Trappgrand.

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[emblem of Stockholm Municipality]
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The Literary Route of Stockholm is an initiative launched in 1992 in which quotes from books and poems by Swedish writers and poets related to the place where the sign is located are scattered throughout the city

The current song is by Gösta Friberg (1936-2018) it is at the top of the Pustegränd steps and was placed in 2005

The place where the sign stands was photographed by the same photographer on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
THE LITERARY STOCKHOLM

The evening of the lamp; the drop of the brass faucet old Köket, Maria Trappgränd.
The tram screeches and howls
Hornsgatan’s hump,
and my uncle is just coming in through the door—the hat
Bent down in the shadows of the forties: in his excited hands, Gunder just runs to the finish line at the Stadium; the windows light up on the other side of the street, and he shakes off the outer evening, filled with gloom and rain, and hangs it dripping on a gallows, straightens his hair with his fingers, and walks half-drunk across the floor.

From the poetry collection "Elegy over a Saturday night in the south" 1962
By GÖSTA FRIBERG. b 1936

There are often autobiographical elements in Gösta Friberg’s poetry and prose. The Södermalm of his childhood is of great importance in his poetry. As a child he lived on Nedre Ragvaldsgatan, which today is called Pustegränds and in the poem is named Maria Trappgrand.

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