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A review by slowshows
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
i think more than the other books in this series, this one really reads like a memoir. as the title suggests, it deals a lot with addiction, especially in the second part, which was tough to get through.
in terms of the way this is written, again, just as in the last one, if felt more like a chronicle of events, but it’s also understandable why. there’s both a certain coldness to the writing, to the way ditlevsen describes her life, of her actions, and those of the people close to her, but there’s also i think an underlying compassion to it all. we do harm on others, even the ones we love, and they do harm on us.
i have to sit with it for a while i think. i do wish the ending hadn’t felt so rushed, the meeting with victor felt sudden and almost unexplained, but maybe that was the point (i assume at the moment of publication they were still together).
please do be warned that this deals a lot with addiction, and goes in detail in the second part into these episodes, as well as the time spent in the rehab centre.
in terms of the way this is written, again, just as in the last one, if felt more like a chronicle of events, but it’s also understandable why. there’s both a certain coldness to the writing, to the way ditlevsen describes her life, of her actions, and those of the people close to her, but there’s also i think an underlying compassion to it all. we do harm on others, even the ones we love, and they do harm on us.
i have to sit with it for a while i think. i do wish the ending hadn’t felt so rushed, the meeting with victor felt sudden and almost unexplained, but maybe that was the point (i assume at the moment of publication they were still together).
please do be warned that this deals a lot with addiction, and goes in detail in the second part into these episodes, as well as the time spent in the rehab centre.