Reviews about Tage Skou-Hansen
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Overstepping the Mark
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We don’t have many novelists of Tage Skou-Hansen’s format. Calmly and with deliberation, nuanced and thoroughly worked out, he unfolds his epic portrayal of our present period, its terms, premises and possibilities. His characters meet, react, discuss. He debates with himself and organizes and runs the whole gamut. Everything is assembled into one, politics, the generations, sex roles – nobody has analyzed the modern man so searchingly and with such understanding as he has. Everything is gathered in the burning-glass focus which with increasing intensity has gleamed through the authorship: the question of existence and our future, the image of our times.
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Preben Meulengracht, Jyllands-Posten, 21 November 1980
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The Leap
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Springet therefore contains both a portrait of a generation and an existentialist debate on the possibility of uniting the two worlds of poetry and power. Skou-Hansen has promised more "tales from the Round Table". Readers will be looking forward to them after the suggestive and stylistically eminent prelude of Springet.
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Svend Birke Espegård in World Literature Today, 1986
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The Leap
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Tage Skou-Hansen has started on a new series of novels – that’s beautiful. For nowhere in Danish realism is one in company with a writer who is able to create such relevant conversations between present-day characters about existential questions. (...) So even though the book is short there is a joy in narrative which infects the reader with delight. As with King Arthur and his knights at the Round Table, one eagerly awaits the next knight’s tale.
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Bo Hakon Jørgensen, Fyens Stiftstidende, 15. April 1986
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Last Summer
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Tage Skou-Hansen’s concluding volume Sidste sommer (Last Summer) is probably the most difficult. Certain passages must be read several times to understand what Tage Skou-Hansen means. In spite of this Danish literature has been enriched with another masterpiece of high caliber.
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Peter Michaelsen i Helsingør Dagblad, 28 Januar 1992
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