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The Emperor of Portugallia
''The Emperor of Portugallia'' (Swedish: ''Kejsarn av Portugallien'') is a novel by Nobel-laureate Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1914 with drawings by Albert Engström. Lagerlöf called it a "Swedish King Lear".〔Donald Haase. ''Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. (Pg. 556 ).〕 The novel was a success with critics and readers, newspaper reviewers said the novel was at the same level as Lagerlöf's earlier novels ''Gösta Berling's Saga'' and the first part of ''Jerusalem''.〔Vivi Edström (2002). ''Selma Lagerlöf. Livets vågspel''. Stockholm: Natur och kultur. ISBN 91-27-09015-9〕 It has been filmed three times: 1925, 1944 and 1992. An English translation by Velma Swanston Howard was published in 1916.
==Plot==
The novel takes place in 1860 or 1870 in Lagerlöf's native Värmland and is about the tenant farmer Jan in Skrolycka and his daughter Glory Goldie Sunnycastle. He loves his daughter more than anything else, but after she moves to Stockholm at age 17, she stops sending letters home. The father sinks into a dream world where he imagines she has become a noble empress of "Portugallia", and he thus also a great Emperor himself. His whole life is dominated by thoughts of her return, and what then will happen. In his role as Emperor residing in the poor countryside, he can challenge the area's social hierarchies: wearing his imperial regalia, he sits at the front of the church, takes place at the head table at parties and tries to socialize with local landlords.
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