Reviews about Jens Smærup Sørensen
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On
The Human Principle
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All of the short stories have come into being with the disciplined craftsmanship, the expressive spareness which is so characteristic of Smærup Sørensen. His firm, dense prose is some of the best which is being written here these years.
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Claus Grymer in Kristeligt Dagblad, 27 September 1985
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On
Catastrophe
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At the republication in 1995
When Jens Smærup Sørensen’s generation novel Katastrofe (Catastrophe) was published in 1989 one reviewer called it “a magnificent hate book”. This reader has difficulty seeing the hateful and leans more towards another reviewer’s description: “the mercilessly loving contemporary novel”. The title of contemporary novel has been bestowed somewhat loosely in recent years, but in the case of Katastrofe there is something to the talk. (...) Jens Smærup Sørensen received both the Critics’ Prize and The Danish Academy’s Grand Prize for Katastrofe. Which is right and proper. Now all that remains is for the still uninitiated to dig into their pockets and buy one of the most important Danish works of the 90s – even though Smærup had his ear to the ground even before the decade dawned.
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Marie Teztlaff in Politiken, 26 March 1995
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On
Village of Culture
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Also this time Smærup’s realistic contemporary and social depictions, grotesque-burlesque carnivalism and highly advanced self-thematizing coalesce in a higher unity. But the book’s finest quality is the authority which which he makes demands on his reader. Unity with Smærup is also unity in detail. He simply writes much better than most Danish authors today, and he even ventures to pose problems for himself which force him out into the corners of his talent.
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Erik Skyum-Nielsen in Information, 25 October 1996
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