Bøger af Jan Grue

Jan Grue er familiefar, veluddannet og har et prestigefuldt job. Han har også en medfødt muskelsygdom, der gør ham til kørestolsbruger.Ved hjælp af kliniske notater, egne erindringer og andre tænkeres skrift finder Grue et sprog til fortællingen om sit liv: Et liv med en krop, som afviger fra normalen, men som er præget af en almengyldig søgen efter mening og kærlighed.”Jeg lever et liv som ligner jeres” er en bog om et almindeligt og ualmindeligt liv, reflekteret gennem Grues eget blik og andres blikke på ham.Om forfatteren:Norske Jan Grue (f. 1981) er professor ved universitetet i Oslo. Han debuterede som skønlitterær forfatter i 2010 og har siden udgivet noveller, børnebøger, faglitteratur og en enkelt roman. For ”Jeg lever et liv som ligner jeres” blev han tildelt Kritikerprisen og nomineret til Nordisk Råds litteraturpris 2018. I 2021 blev han tildelt P.O. Enquists pris. ”Hvis jeg falder. En fortælling om usynligt arbejde” udkommer på dansk i 2023.

"Hvis jeg falder" er en udforskning af den sårbarhed, som følger med kronisk sygdom og funktionsnedsættelse. Med udgangspunkt i sit eget liv og egne erfaringer undersøger Jan Grue, hvordan samfundet møder denne sårbarhed med et krav om usynligt arbejde.Jan Grue fortæller en personlig, klog og øjenåbnende beretning om frigørelse fra skammen over det, en funktionsnedsat krop ikke er i stand til og giver et vigtigt indblik i, hvordan personer med fysiske udfordringer må anstrenge sig ekstra hårdt og arbejde ekstra meget - for at blive accepteret som et hele mennesker.Om forfatteren:Jan Grue (f. 1981) er professor ved Institut for sociologi og samfundsgeografi på universitetet i Oslo. Han debuterede som skønlitterær forfatter i 2010 og har siden udgivet noveller, børnebøger, faglitteratur og en enkelt roman. For "Jeg lever et liv som ligner jeres" (da. 2022) blev han tildelt Kritikerprisen og nomineret til Nordisk Råds litteraturpris 2018. I 2021 blev han tildelt P.O. Enquists pris.

'Superb... up-ends received wisdom about disability... Humbling, dark, bright, defiant, generous... revolutionary' David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasA profoundly beautiful memoir about disability, difference, and living as a vulnerable bodyJan Grue had just become a father when he inherited a stack of his childhood medical records. Following a diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three, the raft of doctors' notes, clinical descriptions and case histories defined his body as defective and his future as bleak and limited. They conjured a childhood nothing like the one he remembered, that failed to anticipate the life he lived now. I Live a Life Like Yours is Grue's beautiful, groundbreaking search for a literary language that could better tell his story.Writing with clear-eyed wisdom and bracing frankness, Grue folds insights from art, film and literature into an expansive account of who he was expected to be, and who he became. If it is a story of frustration with negligent institutions and the pain of stigma, it is also a story of the potential of acceptance and the gift of family. Unflinching, yet always compassionate, I Live a Life Like Yours is a fierce and tender reckoning with what it means to live as a vulnerable body.

* A New York Times Editors' Choice * Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 *I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted to have, and how I got it. I am writing about what it cost, and how I was able to afford it. Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life-his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father-he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly wise reflections on the world, social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human. Along the way, Grue moves effortlessly between his own story and those of others, incorporating reflections on philosophy, film, art, and the work of writers from Joan Didion to Michael Foucault. He revives the cold, clinical language of his childhood, drawing from a stack of medical records that first forced the boy who thought of himself as "e;just Jan"e; to perceive that his body, and therefore his self, was defined by its defects.I Live a Life Like Yours is a love story. It is rich with loss, sorrow, and joy, and with the details of one life: a girlfriend pushing Grue through the airport and forgetting him next to the baggage claim; schoolmates forming a chain behind his wheelchair on the ice one winter day; his parents writing desperate letters in search of proper treatment for their son; his own young son climbing into his lap as he sits in his wheelchair, only to leap down and run away too quickly to catch. It is a story about accepting one's own body and limitations, and learning to love life as it is while remaining open to hope and discovery.

Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened.