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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.