Knud Sønderby

Broschiertes Buch

Fragments of a Mirror

Selected Essays

Beschreibung

There's something very endearing about these essays by the late, great Knud Sønderby, which have been translated into English for the first time by Michael Goldman. Among the highlights in this fine collection are bittersweet reflections about owning a boat, musings about darkness and the sound of the wind in West Jylland, and observations about the people Sønderby encounters on his travels across the picturesque Danish landscape. Full of deft humor and thoughtful introspection, Fragments of a Mirror offers up glittering shards of Knud Sønderby at his finest. Nicholas Litchfield, author of Swampjack Virus, editor of Lowestoft Chronicle Knud Sønderby is a master of language, a poetic realist and a refined memoirist. His essays express a very Danish relationship to reality, characterized by his humorous, evocative tone and his delightful observations of this unique Scandinavian country. Peter Gadman, author of Knud Sønderbys Forfatterskab

Autor

Knud Sønderby (1909-1966) was an eminent Danish novelist, journalist, translator, and essayist. The initial printing of his first novel, Midt i en Jazztid (In the Middle of a Jazz Age) sold out in fourteen days due to its immediate popularity among the youth of Denmark. Today this novel is his best-known work and an integral piece of the Danish literary canon. For two decades Sønderby wrote as a journalist for three major newspapers while publishing four additional novels and six plays, as well as translating numerous works into Danish for the Royal Theater. The essays in this volume are drawn from his six essay collections. Sønderby was also a founding member of the Danish Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spuyten Duyvil
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781944682361
• ISBN-10: 1944682368
• Artikelnr.: 47592832