Claus Beck-Nielsen
Autore di The Endless Summer
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Madame Nielsen
Beck-Nielsen, Claus - Altri nomi
- Beck-Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Helge Bille
Madame Nielsen - Data di nascita
- 1963-05-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Denmark
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Denmark
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- Opere
- 23
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 108
- Popolarità
- #179,297
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 35
- Lingue
- 6
But the language of the book seems to fight that depressing message - the long, swooping lines of the text circle delicately, often beautifully, about the drabness and squalor. They loop back and forth as though to undermine the monotony of time, they pin down the irrelevant and leave the important largely undefined and ambiguous. There is power in having had moments of beauty in our lives, the book seems to be telling us, and the futures we didn't exploit are still meaningful to us.
It's difficult to say whether this is a lovely, consoling piece of Proustian melancholy or a slightly banal triumph of style over substance. It probably depends on how cynical you are feeling when you read it. I quite enjoyed it, and it's apparently been a success in Denmark, but I don't think it's really something I'm going to come back to.… (altro)