Reviews about Suzanne Brøgger
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Transparency
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From Blixen and Hans Christian Andersen we know that in the struggle between the self and its shadow it is more often than not the latter that comes out on top. Brøgger has written a story with the opposite conclusion. With Transparence, she believes she has put an end to the myth. It might be thought that she does so by creating a new one, but her public will without any doubt at all will greet it with a storm of applause.
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Charlotte Jørgensen in Weekendavisen, 3 September 1993
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Transparency
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It is at least different in comparison with most of what is written.
The trilogy is like one of those every-changing sweets we sucked as children, for ever taking them out of our mouths to see the new colour. To see the last colour. Readers are allowed to apply that colour for themselves.
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May Schack in Politiken, 3 September 1993.
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The Jade Cat
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Jadekatten is a contemporary tale and an epic novel about this century, focusing on the story of a Danish-Jewish family. It is also a portrait of the artist and an examination of the family as an institution that winds up abandoning people in a void, where they can unceremoniously meet their ruin. Moreover, it is a colossal coming to terms with Mother and a rebuke to us all: when we are no longer capable of tak-ing care of our children, all human fellowship ceases. For its premise is gone. (…) This black story of the shortcomings of society and the hell of private life is – paradoxically and happily – written with great humor in fine linguistic form. You read voraciously. Suzanne Brøgger can be irresistibly quick-witted and terrifyingly on the mark and, in this book, she puts on display her rich sense of anecdotal detail.
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May Schack in Politiken, 18 September 1997
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A Free and Happy Corpse
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She makes clear that life and an urge to gain insight costs blood. Every single step, book after book, has demanded a bowl of blood from her. In Vølvens Spådom (The Sibyl’s Song), Odin pledges one of his eyes, Heimdal his hearing.
In the case of Suzanne Brøgger, it is apparently the teeth that are affected. After the completion of Jadekatten (The Jade Cat) they are simply falling out of her mouth. But I am sure that she will also be able to manage on gruel and still be one of our wittiest writers, one of those who question and castigate most intensely.
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Hans Otto Jørgensen in Jyllands-Posten, 19 May 1998
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On
Sorcery: Articles and Essays 1990-2000
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What kind of author is Suzanne Brøgger? The answer is: Many different kinds, but she may be best as observer and thinker. As a representative of the social criticism she now declares impossible, because there is no longer an integrated society to react. (…) If anyone does, Suzanne Brøgger possesses a provocative sense of equilibrium that is essential to a debater, based upon an extraordinary combination of intelligence and imagination. With both a sense of the trendy, what is hot at the moment, and an instinctive reluctance to jump on board with any sort of fad. A pessimist in a way, but with a paradoxical appetite for life, a drive to meet this strange, unknown world.
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Jens Kistrup, Weekendavisen 10 November 2000
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