Journey in Blue: A Novel About H.C. Andersen - Brossura

Dalager, Stig

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ISBN 10: 0720612691 ISBN 13: 9780720612691

Casa editrice: Peter Owen, 2005

Riassunto

In Journey in Blue Stig Dalager has conjured up the complex personality of the Danish master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen to create a portrait of the writer.
Andersen's life swims into focus in fragments as morphine is administered to him in his final days. His interactions with the men and women who influenced his life and work reveal how he transformed his experiences into literature, including his celebrated fairytales. Yet his painful search for literary validation and religious certainty, combined with other longings that he is not always able to identify or control, often result in him feeling alienated, even tormented, and unable to understand why the Danes should have ambiguous feelings about him and the significance of his writings; for years he felt unrecognized as a major artist in his own country.
This novel is Dalager's first to appear in English and is one of the most translated Danish novels of recent years. It takes the reader on an absorbing journey through the mind, spirit and imagination of one of the most important names in world literature.

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Recensione:

'Dalager's empathy with his subject is fervent and he is a skilled writer, having accrued a distinguished reputation in Europe with five novels and a number of plays. Journey In Blue has a febrile glow of authenticity: its Andersen is real...offers a valuable insight into a stunted genius. ' - Michel Faber , Guardian --Guardian

'Stig Dalager s fictional biography of Hans Christian Andersen finds the writer at the end of his life, recollecting his past in impressionistic, morphine-influenced episodes. Of the many books published in Andersen s bicentenary this one comes nearest to explaining to non-Danes the troubled reverence in which the master storyteller is held by his compatriots.' London Review of Books --London Review of Books

What gives Dalager's novel its real distinction is its picture of a lifelong apartness, with acceptance and love as unrealisable goals. The situation of the old man is foreshadowed many times in the life. Andersen never ceased to be, and to feel, the vulnerable outsider, and Dalager's accounts of his compulsive travelling have power. As Auden said about another great traveller and giver of delight, Edward Lear: through his wanderings the writer himself "became a land". Paul Binding, Independent --Independent

L'autore:

Stig Dalager is the author of Two Days in July as well as several other novels, poetry, story collections, plays, and scripts for film and television. One of Denmark’s most distinguished writers, his internationally known works include the Sarajevo play and The Dream and I Count the Hours, which both premiered at the famous La Mama Theatre in New York. His play, Lord and Shadow, an interpretation of H. C. Andersen and his world, was staged at the Scena Theatre in Washington, D. C.

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• Editore: Peter Owen
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0720612691
• ISBN 13: 9780720612691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320