Reviews about Carsten Jensen
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On
Earth in the Mouth
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"Its tightness, consistent Gidean amorality and its photographically precise language are what is so impressive about "Jorden i Munden" (Earth in the Mouth). Like Thomas' bowels it is empty of the traditional person-centred, epich development, daily climaxes. There are no people here, only humanity and a few empty archetypes, nothing solid, only fluidity."
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Bjørn Bredal in Weekendavisen, 1991
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I Have Seen the World Begin
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"Carsten Jensen's story about his trip from Russia to Hong Kong is one of those rare reading experiences. His book knowingly and naturally forms a part of the fine Danish travel-book tradition - from Jens Baggesen to Hans Christian Andersen to Johannes V. Jensen. Like his predecessors, he has the ability to experience; even small, seemingly trivial incidents become experiences from which he refines an insight which enriches his readers leaving them wiser and even more curious."
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Johs. H. Christensen in Jyllands-Posten, 8 November 1996
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I Have Seen the World Begin
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"What's impressive about this book is its amazing ability to enter into the world of the persons it describes as well as foreign cultures, its combination of different genres, its rich spectrum of moods ranging from agression and idiosyncracy to raw sensitivity and disarming humour, and its intensity as a story, which keeps the reader rivetted throughout all 560 pages."
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Peter Stein Larsen in Kristeligt Dagblad, 8 November 1996
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