This book gave me some fantasticly bizarre dreams , In 1981 , while delivering a lecture on Anthony Burgess , Lundkvist collapsed with a massive heart attack . Two months later he awoke in a heart-lung machine and was in a state of semiconsciouaness . At times he would be awake and lucid ; at other's he lay asleep dreaming very vivid , very weird dreams ; as you would expect dreams to be by a semiconscious swedish poet . Freaky dreams like being on another planet where immigrants milked cows that gave blue milk or about operations that changed white people into black people. A great book with a rare originality, a mix of Surrealism , fantacy, and poetic sci-fi.