By Josefine Klougart,Martin Aitken
"Klougart has an strange skill to create words, photographs and a language that you simply lengthy to stick in and take note forever."—Dagens Nyheter
"One can converse of insufferable good looks, yet you can additionally communicate of a linguistic good looks that makes it attainable to undergo the unbearable."—Politiken
In this genre-bending apocalyptic novel Josefine Klougart fuses myriad literary types to breathtaking impact in poetic meditations on lifestyles and demise interspersed with haunting imagery. Her experimental novel asks readers to think again dying, saying sorrow and loss as attractive and worthy elements of living.
Hailed as "the Virginia Woolf of Scandinavia," Klougart mixes prose, lyric essay, drama, poetry, and photographs to breathtaking impact in her writing, and Of Darkness marks the coming of a totally new literary expertise in international literature.
Josefine Klougart (b. 1985) made her literary debut in 2010 with the unconventional Rise and Fall, which used to be nominated for the celebrated Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her 3rd novel, One people is Sleeping, impending from Open Letter Books in summer time 2016, used to be additionally nominated for a Nordic Council Literature Prize, making her the youngest writer ever nominated two times for this popular prize. Her fourth and most up-to-date novel, Of Darkness, seemed in Denmark in 2014 to common severe acclaim and have become a tremendous bestseller in Denmark and Norway.
Translator Martin Aitken has received various awards for his translations of Danish literature, and he's at present operating with Karl Ove Knausgaard to translate the ultimate quantity of My fight and his nonfiction.
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