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A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021) An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021) Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969ΓÇô71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit childΓÇÖs single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband. Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to todayΓÇÖs discussions around feminism. DitlevsenΓÇÖs trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing upΓÇöin this sense, itΓÇÖs Copenhagen''s answer to Elena Ferrante''s Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction. Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories, and memoirs. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of DenmarkΓÇÖs most important modern authors.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780374602390
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 384
  • Udgivet:
  • 26. Januar 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 216x146x35 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 494 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 10. April 2024
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A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)
An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)

Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.

Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969ΓÇô71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit childΓÇÖs single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.

Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to todayΓÇÖs discussions around feminism. DitlevsenΓÇÖs trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing upΓÇöin this sense, itΓÇÖs Copenhagen''s answer to Elena Ferrante''s Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.

Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories, and memoirs. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of DenmarkΓÇÖs most important modern authors.

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