Reviews about Johannes V. Jensen
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On
Himmerland Tales. Third Collection
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When you read Johannes V. Jensen, time and again, you check to see if the words are really as flat as the paper they are printed on. They well up from the pages with such an abundance and presence that you could believe they were living beings. Jensen has a rare gift for language. Once caught, the reader can scarcely come free . . .
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Lars-Henrik Jensen in Berlingske Tidende, 13 May 1985.
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On
Poems
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What a pleasure it is to sit down with Johannes V. Jensen's early poetry on such a fine spring morning as this. (. . .) It was an event, when these poems were published, and the collection continues to be one of this century's most exciting in the Scandinavian literature. (. . .) Poems 1906 is tender and raw. Blood flows, but the life force is indomitable, and, linguistically, the book is a pioneering work. The sun shines on these pages, but the poems do not fade.
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Ulf Gudmundsen in Vestkysten Midt, 4 May 1977
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On
Christopher Columbus - Part 6 of The Long Journey
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Even knowing how it is going to end does not diminish the pleasure of reading Johannes V. Jensen's highly original retelling of the legend, the story of old Columbus – the man who steered three ships due west into a churning, unknown wilderness, because he knew that the earth was round. That the novel still fascinates is due first of all to Jensen's still unsurpassed ability with language, and secondly to the mythic calibre of the material itself.
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Erik Skyum-Nielsen in Information, 21 August 1992
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