It won’t make the vase whole again
Nicole Flattery: Tove Ditlevsen, 3 June 2021
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favela Goldman.
Penguin, 384 pp., £9.99, January,978 0 241 45757 3 Show More
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favela Goldman.
Penguin, 384 pp., £9.99, January,
The Faces
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Penguin, 144 pp., £8.99, January,978 0 241 39191 4 Show More
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Penguin, 144 pp., £8.99, January,
“... Ifirst encountered Tove Ditlevsen on a visit to Copenhagen. The whole trip had been a mistake. I kept thinking I should go and see the Little Mermaid. Seeing the statue, even from a distance, would somehow validate the journey. Apart from this depthless panic about how and when I would go and see the Little Mermaid, I was doing very little: wandering around galleries, sitting in the hotel bar ... ”
