Tove Ditlevsen

Una vida tan fascinante como la de Lucia Berlin, una escritura tan honesta como la de Rachel Cusk: la recuperación internacional de una de las autoras danesas más importante del siglo XX, con sus tres obras fundamentales en un solo volumen.Considerada una obra maestra por The Guardian, Trilogia de Copenhague reune en un solo volumen Infancia, Juventud y Dependencia, los tres libros fundamentales de Tove Ditlevsen, aclamada como una de las voces mas importantes y singulares de la literatura danesa del siglo XX. Una obra valiente y honesta que supone un ejercicio pionero en el campo de la escritura confesional y que explora temas como la familia, el sexo, la maternidad, la adiccion y las dificultades para ser artista como mujer. Durante su vida, Ditlevsen tuvo que lidiar con la tension entre su vocacion como escritora y sus roles como hija, esposa y madre, asi como su condicion de adicta, lo que llevo a escribir sobre la experiencia y la identidad femeninas de una manera adelantada a su tiempo, que conecta con la actualidad y las discusiones en torno al feminismo. Aunque basada en sus propias experiencias, Trilogia de Copenhague se lee como la ficcion mas convincente: es notable por su intensidad y su descripcion inmersiva de un mundo de complejas amistades femeninas, familia y literatura, y puede considerarse la respuesta danesa a las novelas napolitanas de Elena Ferrante, asi como una precursora espiritual de escritores confesionales como Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk y Deborah Levy.

Trilogia de Copenhaguen recull els tres llibres de memòries de Tove Ditlevsen, una de les veus més importants i singulars de la literatura danesa. Extraordinàriament honesta i vulnerable, pionera de

Som a Copenhaguen lany 1968. La Lise, autora de llibres infantils, casada i amb tres criatures, comença a sentir-se assetjada per cares sense cos i veus estranyes. Esta convençuda que el seu marit, que li es infidel, la deixara, i que hi ha gent que conspira per fer-li mal. I, sobretot, te por de no ser capaç de tornar a escriure mai mes. Pero quan finalment cau en un infern de pastilles i hospitals psiquiatrics, la Lise es planteja si la bogeria, al contrari del que se sol pensar, no sera en realitat la millor manera de sentir-se lliure, descapar duna realitat que se li fa insuportable. Basada en la seva vida, que lautora va relatar esplendidament al volum de memories, Trilogia de Copenhaguen, Les cares es una novel·la breu, intensa i commovedora que explora la bogeria des de dins, amb tota la vivesa i intensitat de lexperiencia viscuda."Un testimoni intel·ligent i mai sensacionalista sobre un tema tractat a bastament la lluita duna artista per fer la seva feina, sense sentir-se culpable per la familia o el mon exterior. Admirable i sense cap mena dautocompassio, sovint ironica, Ditlevsen es una veu imprescindible", Kirkus"El fet que Ditlevsen patis problemes mentals explica en gran part lautenticitat aclaparadora daquesta novel·la. Pero Les cares es molt mes que un estudi cientific perque, treballant des de dins, Ditlevsen es capaç dexplorar els contorns sorprenents de lexperiencia de la Lise: des del seu punt de vista, la bogeria pot ser divertida, dolça i segura, i molt mes il·luminadora que la realitat de la qual vol fugir", The New York Times

Quan cau en un infern de pastilles i hospitals psiquiatrics, la Lise es planteja si la bogeria no sera en realitat la millor manera de sentir-se lliure. Basada en la seva vida, que lautora va relatar esplendidament al volum de memories, "Trilogia de Cope

A new selection of poetry from the generation defining author of the Copenhagen Trilogy translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet She published her first collection in her early twenties and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life This new selection offers English readers a chance to explore her brilliant surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing In this playful mournful witty collection little girls stand tip toe inside adult bodies achievements in literature and lethargy are unflinchingly listed and lovers come and go like the seasons Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith with an introduction by Olga Ravn There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die cements Ditlevsen as one of the twentieth century s most creative writers

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, GuardianThe final volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a womans journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmarks most celebrated twentieth-century writersTove is only twenty, but shes already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, yet she has no idea of the struggles ahead - love affairs, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failure and destructive addiction. As the years go by, the central tension of Toves life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of dependency, in all its forms, and the possibility of living freely and fearlessly - as an artist on her own terms. The final volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, and arguably Ditlevsens masterpiece, Dependency is a dark and blisteringly honest account of addiction, and the way out.

So clear is Ditlevsens eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen TrilogyThe most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you cant have. Thats where all the happiness isIn these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmarks most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his fathers beloved knife, a womans obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsens writing speaks for itselfDaily TelegraphAuthentic, unforced and utterly lucidSunday TimesDitlevsens wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despairDaily MailTranslated by Michael Favala Goldman

À quatorze ans, il est temps pour Tove de quitter l’école afin de travailler et gagner sa vie. Placée dans une famille, puis dans une pension, elle enchaîne les maladresses et les petits boulots mal

Tove est désormais une poétesse publiée et reconnue, mais c’est avec les aléas des relations conjugales qu’elle doit maintenant composer. Alors que son premier mariage se défait, la jeune femme entre

A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life. This new selection offers English readers a chance to explore her brilliant, surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing.In this playful, mournful, witty collection, little girls stand tip-toe inside adult bodies, achievements in literature and lethargy are unflinchingly listed, and lovers come and go like the seasons. Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith, with an introduction by Olga Ravn, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die cements Ditlevsen as one of the twentieth centurys most creative writers.

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, GuardianThe second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a womans journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmarks most celebrated twentieth-century writersForced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a chequered 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 humour, vulnerability and poeticism.

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen TrilogyRecently escaped a long, unhappy marriage aged 51, but youthful in spirit wonderful son, aged 15 household literary name summerhouse large flat in the city centre temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown prefers a motorist. Vilhelm is gone; the room where he and Lise once loved each other will soon be destroyed. When Lise places a lonely hearts advert in the newspaper, she sets off a train of tragicomic events that culminates in an annihilating, inevitable finale. Tove Ditlevsens final novel is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Then she would feel exposed and cry as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently Longing shimmers from these spare but profoundly moving short stories by one of Denmark s most fearless and sharp eyed authors In these tales of inarticulate desire and repression Ditlevsen pulls to the surface our deepest interiorities in devastating exacting prose

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, GuardianThe first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a womans journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmarks most celebrated twentieth-century writersTove knows she is a misfit, whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighbourhood 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 my 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.

Au fin fond de l’enfance, il y a Istedgade, la rue étroite de Vesterbro, le quartier ouvrier où s’entasse la famille de Tove dans un petit appartement ; il y a l’humeur changeante d’une mère violente

One of Denmarks most celebrated writersNew StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a childrens book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonder, is insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?Ditlevsen explores the surprising contours of Lises experience: from her point of view, madness can be funny, soft and secure, and far more enlightening than the "reality" it struggles to evadeThe New York TimesTranslated by Tiina Nunnally

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one womans journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmarks most celebrated twentieth-century writers.Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice Boyd Tonkin SpectatorAstonishing, 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 ObserverThe best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. ThrillingNew Statesman

La continuación natural de Trilogía de Copenhague: una desgarradora novela sobre una mujer al límite, que lucha por convertirse en escritora mientras vive marcada por la enfermedad mental y su condicion de madre y esposaCopenhague, 1968. Lise, escritora de libros para niños y madre casada de tres hijos, esta cada vez mas obsesionada por rostros y voces incorporeos. Esta convencida de que su marido, que le es infiel, la dejara. Sobre todo, tiene miedo de no volver a escribir nunca mas. Sin embargo, a medida que desciende a un mundo de pildoras y hospitales, comienza a preguntarse si la locura es realmente algo que se debe temer o si trae una especie de libertad.Tras convertirse en un fenomeno literario mundial con Trilogia de Copenhague, recuperamos una de las novelas fundamentales de Tove Ditlevsen, Las caras, una continuacion logica de los grandes temas de su literatura (los roles de madre y esposa, la lucha por convertirse en escritora, la infidelidad, la enfermedad mental o las adicciones) y una historia desgarradora que nace de su propia experiencia vital.

Tras las memorables Trilogía de Copenhague y Las caras, «el legado de Tove Ditlevsen perdura con esta colección de cuentos magnífica» (TIME).Una mujer recién casada anhela, irracionalmente, un paragu