Tove Ditlevsen

The Trouble with Happiness (eBook, ePUB)

and Other Stories
Übersetzer: Goldman, Michael Favala

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, Guardian

An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy

'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'

In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's 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 Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' Daily Telegraph

'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' Sunday Times

'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' Daily Mail

Translated by Michael Favala Goldman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141998497
• Artikelnr.: 61763292

Autorenporträt

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.

Inhaltsangabe

Book One: The Umbrella
The Umbrella
The Cat
My Wife Doesn't Dance
His Mother
Queen of the Night
One Morning in a Residential Neighborhood
A Nice Boy
Life's Persistence
Evening
Depression
Book Two: The Trouble with Happiness
The Knife
The Method
Anxiety
The Mother
A Fine Business
The Bird
The Little Shoes
The Best Joke
Two Women
Perpetuation
The Trouble with Happiness

Rezensionen

Splendid short stories... the purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself
Lucy Scholes The Telegraph