Reviews about Thorkild Hansen
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Arabia Felix
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Let it be said straight away and without any reservations that Thorkild Hansens book Det lykkelige Arabien (Arabia Felix) is a pleasure – literary, dramatic and artistic. Indeed almost scientific to a certain extent. Now it is said, and I haven’t said too much […] If the book is translated to English, and so it deserves, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hollywood some day decides to make a screen version. The material is definitely filmic.
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Lasse Budtz, 2 November 1962
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The Trial of Hamsun I-III
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A glaring clear picture of Scandinavia during the Occupation, to put it mildly: a thought-provoking account of the moral self-righteousness of the judical purge and an absorbing portrait of a great no-man, confused, clouded and complex indeed, but also in possession of a paradoxical consistency as regards character, insisting on being heard and counted on. A Scandinavian Ezra Pound. The republication is nothing less than an event. This study of Hamsun is even more so than the works about Niebuhr and Munk and the Slave-trilogy the work where Hansen drives the documentary genre to its extreme limit. An authentic Danish piece of world literature.
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Bo Green Jensen in Weekendavisen, 25 May 1990
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On
A Studio in Paris
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But Et Atelier i Paris (A Studio in Paris) is far more than interval signals from the time before Thorkild Hansen found his destiny and his form. The diary is a work of art in itself, a minute, but always deeply fascinating portrait of the author as a young man […]
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Søren Schou in Information, 14 December 1990
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