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The Dwarf (Swedish: Dvärgen) is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel.[1] It was translated into English by Alexandra Dick in 1945.
The main setting is a fictionalized version of Milan. The character Bernardo of the novel is a fictionalized version of Leonardo da Vinci, who served as a court artist and military architect in Milan from 1482 to 1499. The novel depicts the Italian Renaissance through the eyes of a misanthropic assassin.
- ^ Olsson, Berndt; Ingemar Algulin (1987). Litteraturens historia i Sverige. Gjøvik, Oslo: Norstedts förlag. p. 423. ISBN 91-1-913722-2.