Childhood: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 1 by Tove Ditlevsen (English) Paperback

Description: Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally "Originally published in Danish in 1967 in Denmark, as Barndom" FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" --The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about pursuing a life and a passion beyond the confines of her upbringing--and into the difficult years described in Youth and Dependency Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For "long, mysterious words begin to crawl across" her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her--and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind. Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity. Author Biography Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of the Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976. Review "How does great literature--the Grade A, top-shelf stuff--announce itself to the reader? . . . I bring news of Tove Ditlevsens suite of memoirs with the kind of thrill and reluctance that tells me this must be a masterpiece . . . [The trilogy is] the product of a terrifying talent." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "A beautifully written and relatable chronicle for the marginalized." --Patti Smith "Romantic, spiritually macabre, and ultimately devastating . . . Like a number of dispassionate, poetic modernists--the writers Jean Rhys and Octavia Butler, say, or the visual artists Alice Neel and Diane Arbus--Ditlevsen was marked, wounded, by her own sharp intelligence . . . A wonderfully destabilizing writer, she admits to something that a more timid memoirist would never cop to: monstrous self-interest. By baring her bathos along with her genius, she makes us reflect on our own egotism." --Hilton Als, The New Yorker "The language is elegant--as natural, responsive, and true as wet clay--and the observations provide the pleasurable shock of precision, rather than the sort of approximation we have more reason to expect when reading . . . The experience is overwhelming--its as if Ditlevsen has moved into your head and rearranged all the furniture, and not necessarily for your comfort. The book is as propulsive as the most tightly plotted thriller; even when you want to put it down, it seems to adhere to your hands." --Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books "Read together, [the three volumes of The Copenhagen Trilogy] form a particular kind of masterpiece, one that helps fill a particular kind of void. The trilogy arrives like something found deep in an ancestors bureau drawer, a secret stashed away amid the socks and sachets and photos of dead lovers. The surprise isnt just its ink-damp immediacy and vitality--the chapters have the quality of just-written diary entries, fluidly translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman--but that it exists at all." --Megan OGrady, The New York Times Book Review "The gradual submersion into addiction and madness is brilliantly accomplished . . . Like Tove herself, the reader is balanced on the surface of the moment, appallingly captive to events as they unfold. This sensation of immediacy--of presence--is what distinguishes The Copenhagen Trilogy from a great deal of contemporary autofiction . . . Ditlevsens writing is technically adroit yet feels unconscious, and it brings the reader remarkably close to experiencing the world through another persons mind." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Ditlevsens brilliance is evident . . . Like Grace Paley and Alice Munro, Ditlevsens a master of compression who can capture the whole story of a marriage in a couple of pages. With a born writers killer instinct, she likes to pounce on us with arresting chapter openings . . . She keeps telling us that shes passive and powerless, yet what makes the book hopeful is that shes anything but. Even if writing couldnt save her from herself, it lets her soar above the worlds expectations and seek the truth on her own terms." --John Powers, NPR "There are some writers whose sentences sting like a steady stream of ice-cold water from the tap, and others whose prose feels pleasurably warm as they gradually increase the temperature. The Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen managed to do both . . . While Ditlevsens prose is often straightforward and uncomplicated, the effect is a hypnotic longing, the pull between desiring the life of an artist and wanting some sense of normalcy." --Michele Filgate, The Boston Globe "Unnervingly brilliant . . . A masterpiece . . . That all of [Ditlevsens] wants are presented to us with such a straight face, even when they are unflattering, is part of what gives The Copenhagen Trilogy its enormous emotional power. It is a story about wanting, about a giant and constantly vexed ambition, offered up to us simply and straightforwardly, as though the book were a pool of clear water and we can see all the way down to the bottom." --Constance Grady, Vox "Tove Ditlevsens writing is both engulfing and totally controlled. She knows things about life. But just as important, she has a rare capacity to build from the tragic blocks of her life a perfect and eviscerating story. The greatness of her writing feels like an unsolvable mystery: far away, and up above." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room "Elizabeth Hardwick described Joan Didion as a martyr of facticity, characterizing her novels as elliptical, quick, and apt to self-crucify on acerbic details. This might just as well be applied to the works of the Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen . . . Her great achievement in The Copenhagen Trilogy was to compose a book that registers at once its authors claims to continuity and the jagged contours of fact, that allows her projected salvation and terminal despair to coexist--if not in life, then at least on the page." --Bailey Trela, The Baffler "Like hundred-year-old glass, Ditlevsens writing is elegant, transparent, with glorious whorls of minor distortions and an unaffected beauty, but this seamless surface belies a scaffolding that is forbiddingly sound." --Hannah Kofman, Los Angeles Review of Books "No one has written about childhood quite as memorably as the Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen, or described the compulsion to write with so much hope and foreboding. Her memoirs of growing up in working-class Copenhagen before the Second World War read like Ferrante meets Fierce Attachments . . . But Ditlevsens brooding lyricism is all her own." --Julie Phillips, 4Columns "Ditlevsen is self-deprecating and effective at conveying the fish-eye view of a child in a claustrophobic environment; she understands that part of the memoirists job is to remember how life felt and synthesize it in a way she couldnt have at the time. . . . Ditlevsen is a master of slow realization, quick characterization, and concise ironies." --Lauren Oyler, Harpers "[The Copenhagen Trilogy] is an absolute tour de force, the final volume in particular. Theyre as brilliant as Id been led to expect, but also surprisingly intense and elegant . . . [Ditlevsens writing] is crystal clear and vividly, painfully raw." --Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review "Memoir as confession--a powerful, psychologically astute work of self-examination and remembrance." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Readers will find [Ditlevsens] ruthless self-scrutiny both admirable and shocking." --Margaret Quamme, Booklist"Mordant, vibrantly confessional . . . A masterpiece." --Liz Jensen, The Guardian "The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling." --John Self, New Statesman "Both [The Copenhagen Trilogy and Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels] depict, with first-hand grittiness and luminous subjectivity, bookish girls growing up in working-class districts, whether in 1950s Naples or 1930s Copenhagen. From an artistic viewpoint, Ditlevsens work is the more interesting . . . She looks the slimy and intolerable in the eye and burnishes it into cut glass." --Lucasta Miller, The Times Literary Supplement"Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsens trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent." --Alex Preston, Observer Review Quote "Tove Ditlevsens writing is both engulfing and totally controlled. She knows things about life. But just as important, she has a rare capacity to build from the tragic blocks of her life a perfect and eviscerating story. The greatness of her writing feels like an unsolvable mystery: far away, and up above." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room "[The Copenhagen Trilogy] is an absolute tour de force, the final volume in particular. Theyre as brilliant as Id been led to expect, but also surprisingly intense and elegant . . . [Ditlevsens writing] is crystal clear and vividly, painfully raw." --Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review "Readers will find [Ditlevsens] ruthless self-scrutiny both admirable and shocking." --Margaret Quamme, Booklist "Mordant, vibrantly confessional . . . A masterpiece." --Liz Jensen, The Guardian "The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling." --John Self, New Statesman "Both [The Copenhagen Trilogy and Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels] depict, with first-hand grittiness and luminous subjectivity, bookish girls growing up in working-class districts, whether in 1950s Naples or 1930s Copenhagen. From an artistic viewpoint, Ditlevsens work is the more interesting . . . She looks the slimy and intolerable in the eye and burnishes it into cut glass. Shes a writer who, like Jean Rhys, explores the seamy ambiguities of female abjection - with a voice whose power blasts through." --Lucasta Miller, The Times Literary Supplement "Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsens trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent." --Alex Preston, Observer Details ISBN0374722935 Author Tiina Nunnally Short Title Childhood Pages 112 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0374722935 ISBN-13 9780374722937 Format Paperback Series Number 1 Subtitle The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 1 Publication Date 2021-01-26 Publisher Fsg Originals Imprint Fsg Originals Series The Copenhagen Trilogy Translator Tiina Nunnally UK Release Date 2021-01-26 DEWEY 839.81372 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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