A review by nixiethepixie
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

So struck by this honest, brutal and generous offering. Truly a chronicle of a young life - Ditlevsen bears her truths, learnings, and life with such honesty it’s both beautiful and brutal to sit with. Reflective yet present, a fascinating way to move through time and memory, and how a life can shape a person. Dependency was particularly devastating, in ways that Childhood and Youth shadow towards. Ditlevsen offers such insight, yet no answers, you can’t help but feel the malaise and heaviness of her life, and the truth and necessity of writing, expression and connection.