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The condition of secrecy : essays /

By: Christensen, Inger, 1935-2009 [author.].
Contributor(s): Nied, Susanna [translator.].
Publisher: New York : New Directions, 2018Description: 138 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780811228114; 9780811228114:; 0811228118.Uniform titles: Hemmelighedstilstanden / Subject(s): Christensen, Inger, 1935-2009 -- Translations into English | Danish essays | Creative writingGenre/Form: Essays. | Essays.DDC classification: 808.84
Contents:
Freedom, equality and fraternity in the summer cottage -- Interplay -- The Dream of a city -- To talk, to see, to do -- Our story about the world -- Silk, the universe, language, the heart -- The conditions of secrecy -- In the beginning was the flesh -- It's all words -- The naive reader -- The regulating effect of chance -- I think, therefore I am part of the labyrinth -- The shadow of truth -- The shadow of night -- The seven with the die -- Snow -- The miracle play of reality -- "There is the landscape's time".
Summary: "[Christensen] formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with memories of Christensen's school years during the Nazi occupation of Denmark), and others are political, touching on the Cold War and Chernobyl. The Condition of Secrecy also covers the Ars Poetica of Lu Chi (261-303 CE); William Blake and Isaac Newton; and such topics as randomness as a universal force and the role of the writer as an agent of social change"--Publisher's description.Summary: For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen's most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces.
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Original essays individually published between 1964-1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedom, equality and fraternity in the summer cottage -- Interplay -- The Dream of a city -- To talk, to see, to do -- Our story about the world -- Silk, the universe, language, the heart -- The conditions of secrecy -- In the beginning was the flesh -- It's all words -- The naive reader -- The regulating effect of chance -- I think, therefore I am part of the labyrinth -- The shadow of truth -- The shadow of night -- The seven with the die -- Snow -- The miracle play of reality -- "There is the landscape's time".

"[Christensen] formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with memories of Christensen's school years during the Nazi occupation of Denmark), and others are political, touching on the Cold War and Chernobyl. The Condition of Secrecy also covers the Ars Poetica of Lu Chi (261-303 CE); William Blake and Isaac Newton; and such topics as randomness as a universal force and the role of the writer as an agent of social change"--Publisher's description.

For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen's most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces.

Translated from the Danish.

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