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Marbacka
The book Marbacka, the first part of a trilogy written in 1922-32, can be read as many different things: memoir, fictionalized autobiography, even part of Lagerlof's myth-making about her own successful career as an author. It is part social and family history; part mischievous satire in the guise of innocent, first-person child narration; part declaration of filial love. The property of Marbacka in V„rmland was where Selma Lagerl”f grew up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties led to the loss of the house, but Lagerlof was later able to buy it back, rebuild, and make it the center of her world.