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The Faces
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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New to Penguin Modern Classics, a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalisation. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself lead to enlightenment?
Brief, intense, and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel recreates the experience of madness from the inside, with all the vividness of lived experience.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen is acclaimed for its raw portrayal of madness, illustrated with authenticity due to Ditlevsen's personal experiences. The translation by Tiina Nunnally captures this experience closely, highlighting the protagonist's unique and often humorous perspective on her insanity. The book is praised for its unflinching exploration of artistic struggle, family guilt, and is noted for handling its heavy themes without sensationalism, offering a voice of irony and insight.
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ISBN: 9780241391914
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 January 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Tiina Nunnally
- Translated by Tiina Nunnally
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 114g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Tove Ditlevsen (Author) Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including the novels The Faces and Vilhelm's Room and her autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976. Tiina Nunnally (Translator) Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.
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