World-changing literary works build upon one another and their respective traditions; I wish to show how they are interconnected and lay a rich foundation for deeper understanding and cultural enrichment. Translators remain unresearched despite their crucial role in literary history. Ingvar Björkeson was the most important of them all. I wish to bridge this knowledge-gap, but also to produce something that, strangely enough, is lacking in Sweden: an in-depth and engaging book about the great classics that form part of every educational canon.
