Author: Tove Ditlevsen; Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
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: 9780374539405
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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: 01 January 2021
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: Tove Ditlevsen; Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
: The\Copenhagen Trilogy Ser.
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Description
The acclaimed Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy("A masterpiece"--The Guardian)continues with Youth. Following Childhood, this second volume finds the young author consumed in trials by fire that only fuel her relentless passion for artistic freedom--placing her on a devastating and destructive path recounted in the final volume, Dependency.
Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a checkered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides into war, she must navigate exploitative bosses, a Nazi landlady, and unwelcome sexual encounters on the road to hard-won independence. Yet she remains ruthlessly determined in the pursuit of her poetic vocation--until at last the miracle she has always dreamed of appears to be within reach.
Youth, the second volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a strikingly honest and immersive portrait of adolescence, filled with biting humor, vulnerability, and poeticism.