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Aug. 30, 2023
A Danish giant in “The Copenhagen Trilogy”
In this 340-page book, Tove Ditlevsen stays faithful to the grit of an exiled insider wandering her own cobblestone squares and public gardens, aware always of possible seizure by the Germans or the dangers of her opiate addictions. This knife-edge of tension rumbles down like thunder, as propulsive as any thriller or espionage novel.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
A literary miracle took place in Denmark in the mid-20th Century. Her name was Tove Ditlevsen. Some would say she was the greatest writer in the Dano-Norwegian languages in the last 150 years, with perhaps the exception of Henrik Ibsen. English translations are finally appearing yearly, if not monthly, which is astonishing since they have been in print in 30 languages ever since her death, by her own hand, in 1976.
Her mellifluous prose me...
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