Face

Tove Ditlevsen, a national treasure of Danish literature in the 20th century, has her full-length novel stunningly debut in simplified Chinese!
Tearing apart the illusionary face of life in hallucinations, exploring the female voice of self in chaos:
The spiritual journey of self-redemption for a mentally broken female writer.
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【Synopsis】
"She no longer belonged to herself. No matter where she hid,
people would shamelessly create an image for her, and she could do nothing about it."
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Lise Mundus, an acclaimed children's book author, hasn't written in two years.
Her philandering husband is entangled with the housekeeper, Git, and her three children feel increasingly unfamiliar.
Lise firmly believes Git and her husband are conspiring to kill her, and her fears and suspicions gradually escalate into a carnival of paranoia—
She falls into a parallel world constructed of visual and auditory hallucinations, where shifting, ephemeral faces transcend time and space,
and different characters from Lise's past life appear one after another…
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【Editor's Recommendation】
🤍 A masterpiece by Tove Ditlevsen, a national treasure of Denmark and author of "The Copenhagen Trilogy"!
Born in a working-class neighborhood of Copenhagen, Tove Ditlevsen led a life of hardship,
with a tumultuous personal life and severe drug addiction, leading to several admissions to mental hospitals for treatment;
With astonishing talent and creative energy, she pioneered a cruel yet real autobiographical novel style,
and is now regarded as a national treasure of Danish literature in the 20th century.
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🤍 An autobiographical novel masterpiece—documenting the complexity of the world and embracing the contradictions of the self
Ditlevsen completed "Faces" between writing "The Copenhagen Trilogy,"
condensing her life experiences into a short but poignant work,
honestly and freely dissecting herself through the genre of fictional stories,
and mercifully giving "Faces" a more hopeful ending.
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🤍 The spiritual journey of self-redemption for a mentally broken female writer
Threats from childhood memories, crises in the real world, bottlenecks in literary creation, her husband's philandering, the children's estrangement…
Between family and career, sanity and madness, writing about fragmented perceptions and a chaotic self,
revealing the cruel disconnection between the inner world and external reality through the most mundane details of life:
Is it possible to choose a face that perfectly fits a woman? Can it last until the end of her life?
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🤍 Cover designed by acclaimed young artist Xihe, paperback pocket edition for worry-free carrying
Artistic outer cover with a hazy aesthetic, perfectly presenting the artwork's style.
110*185 paperback dual-cover pocket edition, small and exquisite, easy to carry for commutes and travels!
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【Media Reviews】
Ditlevsen meticulously and precisely portrays the inner world of the protagonist, Lise: insanity can be interesting, gentle, reassuring, and most importantly, "madness" is more illuminating than "reality"... Like many great female writers, she reveals her hidden face to readers, thereby inspiring them to find their own.
—The New York Times
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At Ditlevsen's funeral, crowds filled the church to pay their respects. This had never happened to any other Danish writer—except Hans Christian Andersen. Readers expressed their love for her and their sorrow at her premature death.
—Anne-Marie Mai (Professor at the University of Southern Denmark)
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She was loved by generations of women, yet disparaged by generations of men... She is the Billie Holiday of literature, and her words vividly describe the hopes and disappointments of women's lives.
—Dorthe Nors
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Ditlevsen could sketch a complete world with just a few words.
—The Times Literary Supplement

2025-02-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

208

9787559869234