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On
The Deathwatch Beetle
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Everything is described with a natural scientific precision that neither excludes humour in the dialogue nor a subdued despair that moves us. Vibeke Grønfeldt has never written better than in this story, which is almost free of manner but which still realises the need to make the grotesque in every-day phenomena visible by means of slight twists in the language or just through very precise description…..
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Marie-Louise Paludan in Weekendavisen, 12 October 1990
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On
Discovery
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Lost time re-found and re-won – as in Proust. The story switches with brilliant artistic subtlety between the past and present – Vibeke Grønfeldt has never been such a captivating and such a truly popular writer as here!
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Jens Kistrup in Berlingske Tidende, 14 October 1993
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On
An Easy Life
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This is a fantastic novel in which form and content successfully challenge each other. The novel, like its content, floats through irrevocable places and scenes that are depicted through the main character’s superficial heaviness in life. This is a novel that does more than emphasize Vibeke Grønfeldt’s importance. She receives the Major Academy Award tomorrow. This is justifiably earned. Grønfeldt has the artistic depth to portray modern superficiality and its serious consequences.
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Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen in Morgenavisen Fyens Stiftstidende, 28 November 1996
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Today
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Vibeke Grønfeldt is particularly gifted at seeing her fellow human beings in sharp negatives. Don’t these pictures of Denmark also reflect the writer’s own self-chosen isolation in her house on Samsø? Can a Denmark without societies and other forms of temporary community be completely credible? The reason why one nevertheless surrenders unconditionally to Grønfeldt’s chronicle of Denmark is because she writes so fantastically well. She has the great writer’s ability to conjure up a world that absorbs the reader.
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John Chr. Jørgensen in Ekstra Bladet, 8 April 1998
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Today
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A masterpiece by an omniscient writer: Vibeke Grønfeldt’s new novel "Today" – about the, both savage and silent change of the "anonymous" Denmark during the latter half of this century. (…) Is what she has done in her new novel, one of her best, perhaps the best? This is undoubtedly part of its very ambitious intention. At one and the same time inexhaustible in its variety and as close to reality as it is possible to come.
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Jens Kistrup in Berlingske Tidende, 8 April 1998
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