The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a spacecraft (4,750 m (15,580 ft) long and 891 m (2,923 ft) wide) which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the Solar System and into an existential struggle. “ Aniara” is an effort to “mediate between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend.” Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the “curved space” from Einstein’s general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson’s description of the cosmos as “a bowl of glass.” Martinson also said he was influenced by Paul Dirac. The title comes from ancient Greek ἀνιαρός, “sad, despairing”, plus special resonances that the sound “a” had for Martinson. “ Aniara” (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum/Aniara: A Revue About Man in Time and Space) is a science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. The producer is Annika Rogell and the film is made by the production company Meta Film Stockholm AB. The Swedish actress Emelie Jonsson took the lead in the “Aniara” film. It is scheduled to be premiere March 28, 2018. It is based on Harry Martinson‘s SF epic poem “ Aniara” from 1956. “ Aniara” is an upcoming SF Swedish film directed by Hugo Lilja and Pella Kågerman. It transcends panic and terror and even despair and leaves you in the quiet immensities, with the feeling that you have spent time, and have been permanently tinted, by and with an impersonal larger-than-God force.” Theodore Sturgeon, reviewing “Aniara” in 1964 declared that “ Martinson’s achievement is an inexpressible, immeasurable sadness.
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