Reviews about Martin A. Hansen
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On
Jonatan's Journey
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Beyond the ordinary fairy-tale quality of the book, the author provides an impressive series of small, brief, and concise fables, containing highly inspiring visions . . . In short, it is a book that is really worth reading. It gets your thoughts flowing – sometimes, so they almost run in a circle – and it gets you laughing, besides, and that is always a pleasure.
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Knud Nordentoft in Fædrelandet, the 2nd of March 1945
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The Liar
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Like the great artist he is, Martin A. Hansen does not explain the meaning of his book, he allows it to develop from the material and its context. It rises like the sun on the horizon, a part of nature and above it. There is a connection between human beings, nature and ideas in the book that analysis can dissolve and only the symbol can retain. First of all, there is the human being's connection to nature. The novel is a description of spring, a radiant description of spring bathed in light, of spring as restlessness and obsession, the time of thaw and ferment, evoked with a powerful intimacy, rich in detail and the joy of things, whose most significant passages can be counted among the best nature descriptions in Danish literature. But spring is not only the early, stormy restlessness of nature that is propagated in an old heart. Spring is also Easter, the shower of light is the cleansing, rejuvenating shower of Easter.
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Hakon Stangerup in Fyens Stiftstidende, 28 August 1950
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On
Lucky Kristoffer
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The subtle and worldly-wise Martin A Hansen, whose imagination can take flight like a Danish Cervantes and whose descriptions of nature would make even Johannes V. Jensen nod in acknowledgement . . . The novel is so larded with life wisdom that you could pluck proverbs from it . . . And you can call me Abbot Mads (one of the novel's craftiest figures), if Martin A. Hansen is not a great artist.
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Tom Kristensen in Politiken
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