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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love an author that can't stop writing about herself.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
(3.5) In het begin van het boek erg genoten van Ditlevsens onderkoelde sarcasme en vooral van haar metaforiek. Geweldig, alle gezichten in verschuiving, hoe de wereld zachtjes in de richting van paranoia glijdt.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A brief but powerful read. Once I got going with it, it was truly difficult to put down. Ditlevsen inhabits Lise's voice so well — undoubtedly, her own experiences with mental illness and psychiatric hospital stays was incorporated into the novel. What's real, what's not, what's imagined, and what's manipulation...there are so many deeply complex questions here, and despite there not being what one might call "clear" answers to any of them, I was still very struck by how much Ditlevsen was able to achieve in so few pages.
This is my first of Ditlevsen's works, but I'm even more keen to pick up the much-lauded Copenhagen Trilogy now.
This is my first of Ditlevsen's works, but I'm even more keen to pick up the much-lauded Copenhagen Trilogy now.
Terrified, she touched her face, which was creased and wrinkled like her mother's, because she had forgotten to hold it back when it ran through the future as if through a sewer where the light falls seductively through a fake window at the end onto the old garbage and scurrying rats.
Als ik ooit Deens leer, is het enkel en alleen om Tove Ditlevsen onvertaald te kunnen lezen.
ah miten totaalisen hämmentävä ja kaikkeen epäilyä herättävä pudotus kirjoittamiseen, naisen asemaan, seksuaalisuuteen ja totta kai mielenterveyteen.