Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Tove Ditlevsen (Author)Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.
Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.
The fact that Ditlevsen was herself one of insanity's intimates does much to explain this book's harrowing authenticity. But <i>The Faces </i>- in Tiina Nunnally's very deliberate, close-to-the-nerve translation - rises above a case study because, working from the inside, Ditlevsen is able to explore the surprising contours of Lise's experience: from her point of view, madness can be funny, soft and secure, and far more enlightening than the "reality" it struggles to evade
The New York Times
A searing but never sensational account of a usually hyped theme - the struggle of the artist to do her work, without guilt about family or the outside world. Admirably without self-pity, and often ironic, Ditlevsen is a voice to heed
Kirkus
these are <b>the best books I have read this year </b>'Praise for the Copenhagen Trilogy'
- John Self, New Statesman
Mordant, vibrantly confessional... <b>A masterpiece </b>'Praise for the Copenhagen Trilogy'
Guardian
<b>Wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy</b> ... Sharp, tough and tender 'Praise for the Copenhagen Trilogy'
- Boyd Tonkin, Spectator
An inspired pick, especially for those readers whose introduction to Ditlevsen's work has been the Copenhagen Trilogy
Paris Review
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Tove Ditlevsen (Author)Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.
Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.