Claus Beck-Nielsen
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Mein Leben unter den Großen (German Edition) 1 exemplaar
Mine møder med de danske forfattere 1 exemplaar
Lamento 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Madame Nielsen
Beck-Nielsen, Claus - Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Beck-Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Claus
Nielsen, Helge Bille
Madame Nielsen - Geboortedatum
- 1963-05-06
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Denmark
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Denmark
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Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- 24
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- 1
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- 109
- Populariteit
- #178,011
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 35
- Talen
- 6
But the language of the book seems to fight that depressing message - the long, swooping lines of the text circle delicately, often beautifully, about the drabness and squalor. They loop back and forth as though to undermine the monotony of time, they pin down the irrelevant and leave the important largely undefined and ambiguous. There is power in having had moments of beauty in our lives, the book seems to be telling us, and the futures we didn't exploit are still meaningful to us.
It's difficult to say whether this is a lovely, consoling piece of Proustian melancholy or a slightly banal triumph of style over substance. It probably depends on how cynical you are feeling when you read it. I quite enjoyed it, and it's apparently been a success in Denmark, but I don't think it's really something I'm going to come back to.… (meer)