#danish literature

[flowerytale]

Hans Christian Andersen, from The Little Mermaid

#the little mermaid #hans christian andersen #fairytale #lit #literature #danish literature #1800s #flowers #typo #typography #words #fragments #*

[illustration-alcove]

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox, illustrated by Viktor Chizhikov.

#hans christian andersen #the tinderbox #viktor chizhikov #danish literature

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

*Originally published in Danish as "Den lille havfrue"; sometimes translated as "The Little Sea Maid"

"The Little Mermaid" is available to read here

#short stories #short story #the little mermaid #den lille havfrue #the little sea maid #hans christian andersen #19th century literature #danish literature #danish language literature #links to text

[oresti-s]

Philosophical Fragments or A Fragment of Philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard.

#soren kierkegaard #danish literature #philosophy #quotes #words #excerpts #philosophical fragments

[beljar]

A feeling, a sense of attachment? Do you know? Has it got a name? What do you call it? Is it normal? Should I be worried?

I’ve got nothing against death. Nothing against rotting away. What frightens me is what doesn’t die and never changes form.

I like to be in the room. I find it very erotic. The suspended object, I recognise my gender in it.. Every time I look at the object, I can feel my sex between my legs and between my lips. I become moist, regardless of whether I’ve got anything there or not.

The fragrance in the room has will and intention. It’s the smell of something old and decomposing, something musty. It’s as if the smell wishes to initiate the same process in me: that I become a branch to break off, rot and be gone.

You want to know why I like the incinerator? It’s the smell of burnt matter, it reminds me of mealtimes at home. The smell of meat and soil and blood. It smells of the birth of my daughter. It smells of Planet Earth.

Olga Ravn, from The Employees: A workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, [Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken]

#olga ravn #the employees #danish literature #web weaving #quotes #spilled ink #words words words #alienation #aliens #dark academia #books and libraries

[theoptia]

Søren Kierkegaard, from Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 1

Text ID: I shall now try to look calmly at myself and begin to act inwardly; for only in this way will I be able, as the child in its first consciously undertaken act refers to itself as “I,” to call myself “I” in a profounder sense.

#søren kierkegaard #kierkegaard’s journals and notebooks volume 1 #quote #journal #danish literature #lit #philosophy #existential literature #existentialism #miscellanea

[earhartsease]

well, now we've taken the plunge

back in the 90s we read an ancient english translation of De fortabte spillemænd, a novel set in the Faroes, by the Faroese/Danish author William Heinesen - the edition we read was called The Vanishing Musicians, and in fact it was the intriguing title that made us borrow it from the library

we tried to find it again but it seems that book just does not exist - the only existing translations are called The Lost Musicians (which is a more accurate translation, though spillemænd is more correctly violinists or fiddlers)

so now we've written to both the library we originally borrowed it from, and the humanities dept of Copenhagen University, to see if anyone can confirm that book actually ever existed? because online searches for that title turn up nothing at all, and it's very very weird

meanwhile we're just starting to read a modern translation (with the modern title) but we long for that book we first read, the language in it felt really good

also it's really pissing us off that people keep writing The Faroe Islands when Faroes already means Sheep Islands but so it goes :)

#danish literature #william heinesen

[cinematic-literature]

Conversations with Friends E04

Book title: Childhood (Barndom in Danish; 1967) by Tove Ditlevsen

#conversations with friends #books in tv shows #childhood #alison oliver #danish literature #tove ditlevsen #barndom #frances flynn

[isavedyouthewaltz]

'You have two faces,' she said, astonished. 'That's not allowed. You can only wear once face at a time.' -Tove Ditlevsen The Faces

#tove ditlevsen #the faces #fictions #literary fiction #books #danish literature

[gennsoup]

Conscious presence opens the now. Yet it's difficult to be present in the now. There's always something tugging you away. A spot itches, or you're afraid of ticks. Or the red deer.

Dorthe Nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

#Dorthe Nors #Mirror Shoulder Signal #consciousness #meditation #mindfulness #distraction #nature #nature quotes #outdoors #Danish literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books

[moonofiron]

-Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

#Peter Høeg #Smilla's sense of snow #miss smilla's feeling for snow #danish literature #nordic noir #quote #lit #sq #q

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I should like to know, faith, if you deserve that one should run from one end of the world to the other for your sake?

from "the Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen

#literature #danish literature #fairy tales #hans christian andersen

[illustration-alcove]

Hans Christian Andersen's The Tinderbox, illustrated by Viktor Chizhikov.

#hans christian andersen #the tinderbox #tinderbox #viktor chizhikov #danish literature

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

*Originally published in Danish as "Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne"; sometimes translated as "The Little Match-Seller"

"The Little Match Girl" is available to read here

#short stories #short story #the little match girl #the little match-seller #den lille pige med svovlstikkerne #19th century literature #danish literature #danish language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[beljar]

All the pores of my skin are wide open, and I see that in each one of them there’s a tiny stone. I feel I can’t recognise myself. I scratch and scratch at my skin until it bleeds.

Olga Ravn, from The Employees: A workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, (statement 006) [Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken]

#olga ravn #the employees #spilled ink #danish literature #existential dread #prose #words words words #books and libraries #quotes #dark academia

[theoptia]

Søren Kierkegaard, from Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume I

Text ID: the singularity, unity, and simplicity of the great, of the sublime.

#søren kierkegaard #kierkgaard's journals and notebooks volume 1 #journal #diary #notebook #quote #danish literature #lit #miscellanea