Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Kristensen, Tom; Malmberg, Carl; Jensen, Morten Høi |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 6/12/2018 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution anddespair has been out of print in the US for over eighty years until now.
OleJastrau is the very model of an enterprising and ambitious young man ofletters, poised on the brink of what is sure to be a distinguishedcareer as a critic. In fact he is teetering on the brink of an emotionaland moral abyss. Bored with his beautiful wife and chafing at theburdens of fatherhood, disdainful of the commercialism and politicalopportunism of the newspaper he works for, he feels more and more thathis life lacks meaning. He flirts with Catholicism and flirts withCommunism, but somehow he doesn’t have the makings of a true he takes up with the bottle, a truly meaningful relationship.“Slowly and quietly,” he intends to go to the dogs.
Jastrau’s romance with self-destruction will take him through all the circles of hell. The process will be anything but slow and quiet.
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