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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
40 reviews
irelivar's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse
solasuaine's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Abortion, Drug abuse, and Drug use
lrooks98's review against another edition
4.0
Overall, I think this book made me a fan of Tove Ditlevsen. Her prose, as someone else mentioned, is incredibly detached while also being incredibly reflective as well. I picked it up from the library's featured table because I was going to Copenhagen in a few months, and I'm so glad that I did. A lot of her book reminds me of Kerr Conway's The Road from Coorain, and I'm guessing she's also reminiscent of Slyvia Plath.
Moderate: Addiction and Abortion
sarahrose_a's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, and Addiction
patchworkculture's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, and Addiction
ldawson's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Infidelity, Alcohol, Mental illness, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Abortion
georgiarybanks's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Infidelity, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy
odpeppiatt's review against another edition
3.5
In the same vein (no pun intended), it’s as if Tove Ditlevsen wrote so much about this far-fetched glimmer of freedom throughout each era of her life because she knew when she finally grabbed hold of it, it would disintegrate through her fingers. Throughout her childhood and youth, she dreams of being a writer (“I always dreamed of finding a person, just one, to whom I could show my poems and who would praise them.”), finding true love (“But I’ve begun to long for the intimate closeness with another human being that is called love. I long for love without knowing what it is. I think that I’ll find it when I no longer live at home. And the man I love will be different from anyone else.”), and having a generally conventional life (“Ebbe asks, Why do you want to be normal and regular? Everyone knows you’re not. I don’t know how to answer him, but I have wanted that as far back as I can remember.”). In every stage of her life, she sets her desperate hope of happiness on the future, while being consciously miserable and romanticizing her past. In the first installment of the trilogy, Childhood, she writes, “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own. It’s there all the time and everyone can see it just as clearly as you can see Pretty Ludvig’s harelip,” only to reminisce on that time of her life in the second, Youth, saying, “most of the time I find this life intolerably boring and recall with sorrow my variable and eventful childhood.”
Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Medical content, Infidelity, and Drug abuse
relf's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Abortion
Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
m_sotos's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and War