Tove Ditlevsen: Childhood
By the time she was ten years old Tove Ditlevsen knew she wanted to be a poet. The biggest obstacle to that dream was the times in which she lived.…
Peter Adolphsen: The Brummstein
Danish writer Peter Adolphsen‘s first work in English was his 2006 novel, Machine, which followed a drop of oil over the massive expanse of fifty-five million years, and somehow wrapped…
Peter Adolphsen: Machine
The passage of fifty-five millions years sounds extremely epic, but here, in Peter Adolphsen’s Machine (2006, tr. Charlotte Barslund, 2007) that passage in time is compressed into the less monumental…