Virginia
by Jens Christian Grøndahl
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En kvindes livsforløb, fortalt af en jævnaldrende mand, der traf hende som feriebarn under krigen og derfor kender historien bag cigaretetuiet med én gulnet cigaret tilbage.Tags
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A skandináv minimalizmus tipikus példája. Ha ennél tömörebb lenne, akkor képeslapon küldték volna el a kiadónak. Pedig évtizedeket fog át - a kamaszkorból az öregkorba nyújtja indáit. Elbeszélője a világháború idején, a dán vidéken találkozik egy nálánál idősebb lánnyal, de kapcsolatuk nemhogy lezáratlan, de konkrétan elkezdetlen marad. Hogy ez a hiány, ez az élménylyuk, egymás megismerésének elmaradása bő fél évszázad után orvosolható-e, az felettébb kérdéses. De végtére is meg lehet próbálni. És ha nem sikerül, mi van akkor? Legalább csináltunk valamit. Tettünk egy könnyű sétát a hiány körül. Skandináv módra.
It is 1942 and Denmark is occupied by the Germans. A Copenhagen dressmaker’s sixteen year old daughter has been asked by one of her mother’s clients if she might like to stay the summer at their ‘holiday cottage’ in the countryside. Also staying with them is their fourteen year old nephew. During that summer a British aircraft goes down not far from the cottage. The girl hides the pilot who had parachuted out. The boy, without being seen, saw her do it.
In a mere 121 pages, this story is told in short chapters, with alternating narrators. The reader is told the story of that summer and how it affected the separate lives of both the girl and the boy, and what they carried of that summer into their futures. One day the boy, now show more man, receives a cigarette case in the post which may have been the pilot’s from that summer….
This is the third novel by Grøndahl novel I have read or attempted. Thus far, they are all short psychological reads about looking back at relationships and life; what choices are made or not, and so on. When it works, as with the splendid [Often I am Happy] and with this absorbing short novel, they are satisfying reads which linger after the last page is turned. show less
In a mere 121 pages, this story is told in short chapters, with alternating narrators. The reader is told the story of that summer and how it affected the separate lives of both the girl and the boy, and what they carried of that summer into their futures. One day the boy, now show more man, receives a cigarette case in the post which may have been the pilot’s from that summer….
This is the third novel by Grøndahl novel I have read or attempted. Thus far, they are all short psychological reads about looking back at relationships and life; what choices are made or not, and so on. When it works, as with the splendid [Often I am Happy] and with this absorbing short novel, they are satisfying reads which linger after the last page is turned. show less
A wonderful little book, in which nothing much happens and nothing may have ever happened, after all. Beautifully translated by Anne Born, who also did some of Per Petterson's books, too. I actually read this back in 2010, before I read An Altered Light, but a long time after his Silence in October, and Lucca, which I came across in 2007 or 08.
Een Deens meisje is in de tweede Wereldoorlog op vakantie in Jutland, waar een jongen verliefd op haar wordt. Op een nacht stort een engels vliegtuig neer, een bommenwerper op weg naar Kopenhagen, zij verbergt de piloot en brengt hem eten. Op een keer volgt de jongen haar en brengt niets vermoedend twee Duitse soldaten mee, dit leidt tot ontdekking. 50 jaar later ontvangt een oude man een postpakketje met een sigarettenetui erin, de brief is van het meisje dat hij gevolgd is. Zij ontmoeten elkaar in Parijs. De korte oorlogszomer heeft het bestaan van beiden diepgaand beïnvloed , waaruit blijkt dat kleine momenten in het leven een beslissende rol kunnen spelen.
Apr 13, 2009Dutch
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- Canonical title*
- Virginia
- Original title
- Virginia
- Original publication date
- 2000 (1e édition originale danoise, Rosinante , Copenhague) (1e édition originale danoise, Rosinante , Copenhague); 2004-05-06 (1e traduction et édition française, Du monde entier, Gallimard) (1e traduction et édition française, Du monde entier, Gallimard)
- Important places
- Denmark
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, German Occupation of Denmark (1940-04-09 | 1945-05-05)
- Epigraph*
- /
- Dedication*
- À Anne
- First words*
- On ne s'habituait pas au bruit, à ce bourdonnement lointain de moteurs d'avions qui passaient très haut dans la nuit. [...]
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[.... J'ai tenu la cigarette entre mes doigts et j'ai contemplé la fumée qui montait dan l'ai comme un ruban transparent et s'enroulait en spirales et en boucles dans les reflets du soleil couchant.
- Original language*
- Danois (Danemark) (Danemark)
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.81374 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Danish Danish fiction 1900–2000 Late 20th century 1945–2000
- LCC
- PT8175 .G753 .V57 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Danish literature Individual authors or works 1900-1960
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