Description
At only twenty, a celebrated young poet and the wife of a much older editor seems to have everything—yet her life quickly reveals a more complicated truth. In this final, searing installment of the Copenhagen Trilogy, she moves through love and friendship, ambition and artistic doubt, and the intimate upheavals of pregnancy and desire, all while a shadow grows stronger: the pull of dependency in its many forms. With blistering honesty and lyrical clarity, the narrative traces how addiction can narrow a person’s choices even as it promises relief, and how freedom—if it exists at all—must be fought for. Tove Ditlevsen’s distinctive, confessional style turns personal struggle into a universal reckoning with control, vulnerability, and the longing to live on one’s own terms.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2021
160 pages
ISBN: 9780374722951
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Details
First Published
1969
Language
dan
Translation
From: dan
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen.