Claus Beck-Nielsen
Auteur de The Endless Summer
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Claus Beck-Nielsen
Mein Leben unter den Großen (German Edition) 1 exemplaire
Mine møder med de danske forfattere 1 exemplaire
Das Beckwerk. Nielsens verdenshistorie 2001-10. Reportager, rejsedagbøger, en kærlighedshistorie og skyggen af en… 1 exemplaire
Lamento 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Madame Nielsen
Beck-Nielsen, Claus - Autres noms
- Beck-Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Helge Bille
Madame Nielsen - Date de naissance
- 1963-05-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Denmark
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Denmark
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 110
- Popularité
- #176,729
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 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.… (plus d'informations)