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Tiny Shifts
"Tiny Shifts, 30 moral stories that evolve out of small shifts or slides, almost imperceptible, that lead to questionable actions and the mental cramps we make to justify them"--
Angelina's Bottom
A young Danish associate professor travels to the United States to teach at a Texas University. He is to teach Danish at its Germanic institute, where most of the work is otherwise about German and especially the Second World War. An entertaining, intelligent and hilarious novel about the university world; about hierarchies and envy; about guarding research results and guarding each other; about a world where you would think there would be exciting and inspiring conversations during lunch break what with all the smart and well-read people gathered together in one place. Instead, people slander each other, try to make strategic alliances and will do almost anything to advance their own careers, possibly even murder... Himmelstrup's "American parable" is a contemporary novel about the United States after 2001, after terror made its way into the country via accepted and unaccepted, some would say mysterious, scenarios. Angelina's Bottom begs the question: Is America in need of heroes, or are they already in good supply?
Difficult Death
Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. His novels Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne as well as his stories and poems were widely admired by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce. Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen’s life, work, and death: his passionate interest in the natural sciences, his complicated and nuanced attitude to his own atheism, and his painful descent toward an early death. Carefully researched and sympathetically imagined, this is an evocative portrait of one of the most influential and gifted writers of the nineteenth century.
Den udødelige soldat og jeg
Ib Michaels evne til at fortælle gode historier i et flot, fabulerende sprog, har gjort ham til en af tidens mest populære forfattere. Den udødelige soldat og jeg er for alle, der gerne vil vide mere om manden bag værkerne og blive klogere på forfatterskabet frem til og med Rosa Mundi. Politiken skrev: "Glimrende indføring i og analyse af Ib Michaels forfatterskab...hjælper til at klare øjet og udvide snæversynet".
Putto
Putto er en hæsblæsende historie om engle, kopper, krig og kærlighed. Den begynder i Kærlighedens have i Antwerpen i 1632 og ender i Kongens København i 2004. Undervejs fortælles koppernes historie, mens et kompliceret spind af intriger, Karl den Femtes uægte børn, fordækte forskere og misdannede logebrødre fører os mod historiens slutning. ”en god røverhistorier med så megen ondskab, som kun mennesker kan præstere. Og så meget fut, som kun en god beretter kan levere”. Politiken.
EN sejlbåd for vindstille
J. P. Jacobsen er en af Danmarks væsentligste forfattere. Han var berømt i sin samtid, oversatte Darwins hovedværker til dansk, og romanerne Marie Grubbe og Niels Lyhne var de mest omtalte udgivelser, da de udkom, ligesom novellen "Mogens" – i hvert tilfælde i bakspejlet – betegnede et skel i litteraturhistorien. Efter sin død blev han en regulær litterær verdensstjerne og var bl.a. Rilkes absolutte yndlingsdigter: «Lev for en tid i disse bøger, lær af dem, hvad der synes Dem værd at lære, men frem for alt, elsk dem».
Angelinas røv
Hvorfor ligger der en nøgen studerende på et skrivebord, en død professor på en kontorgang, en klagesag som et åg på ryggen? Angelinas røv er en kriminalhistorie, men måske er det også en roadmovie, en dagbog og en bekendende selvbiografi. Det er en roman om USA i terrorismens tidsalder. En historie om universitetsverdenens paranoia og uigennemskuelige hierarkier, hvor intet er, hvad det giver sig ud for at være. ”Angelinas røv er simpelthen 200 siders litteratur de luxe, topdollar-underholdning med både vid og bid”. Metroxpres.
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