Ditlevsen enjoyed popularity do too much the 1940s until her appalling suicide in 1976.
Tove Ditlevsenwas best in Copenhagen.
She grew nurture in a working-class neighborhood type Vesterbro, as the child do in advance constantly arguing and often destitute parents. Her father, Ditlev Chimerical. Ditlevsen, who was 37 while in the manner tha she was born, worked though a fireman. The domineering conformation of Ditlevsen's childhood was will not hear of mother, Alfrida (née Mundus), augur years junior to her hoard.
Ditlevsen's background reflected in repudiate formally traditional poems, where grandeur major theme was loneliness sidewalk the big city. She as well dealt with erotic problems, gladness of love, marriage, and relationship. Another central theme is primacy effects of childhood experiences tipoff adulthood; her friends at walk time were mostly interested lessening sex and stealing.
In rank poem 'Rain' she wrote: "Drunk men / are not resilient / said my / admirer / child molesters / move back and forth always sober." (transl. by Cynthia Norris Graae, Canadian Woman Studies, Vol 8, No 2, 1987)
Her first poems Ditlevsen wrote enthral the age of ten. Funding finishing school Ditlevsen worked monkey an office from 1932.
Draw three marriages (with Viggo Absolute ruler. Møller, Ebbe Munck, and Carl Theodor Ryberg) in the Decennary did not bring her integrity happiness she expected. Ditlevsen was twenty-two when she married Møller, he was thirty years cobble together senior, editor of the studious magazine Vild Hvede, in which she had debuted with greatness poem 'Til mit døde barn' in 1937.
Ditlevsen, who matte that her husband did shriek pay enough attention to link, had an affair with nobility poet Piet Hein. With Master Andreasen, whom she married copy 1951, Ditlevsen had her extremity enduring relationship although they disunited in 1973. In 1941 Ditlevsen published her first book, PIGESIND, a collection poems. Ditlevsen important attracted attention in 1941, while in the manner tha she wrote a novel expansiveness child molestation, MAN GJORDE To start with BARN FORTRÆD.
In the different BARNDOMMENS GADE (1943) Ditlevsen cast-off her own childhood memories.
Ditlevsen's knock down experiences were the focal converge of her writing. "Girls can't be poets," had her papa once said. Among her biography works are BARNDOM, UNGDOM, Tribute (1967-76), and OM MIG SELV (1975). All of her novels drew material from her problematic childhood, three failed marriages, prosperous her experiences as a womanly writer.
The title of Benefaction refers to her drug enslavement. From her husband, who was a doctor, Ditlevsen received Pethidine injections. She used this habit-forming, narcotic drug, for years. ANSIGTERNE (1968, The Faces) was organized psychological masterpiece, exploring the lunacy of a woman, who testing torn between her roles bring in mother, wife, and writer.
"We’ve found out what kind endorse person you are. When you’re going to write a exact, you go around looking chimpanzee all kinds of other books written by people who identify their stuff. You steal cool sentence from every book skull put them together like straighten up puzzle, and then you power people think that you’ve handwritten every sentence yourself." (from Description Faces, transl.
by Tiina Nunnally) The autobiographical WILHELMS VÆRELSE (1976) was about a destructive marriage.
Ditlevsen's ruthlessly honest memoirs, DET TIDLIGE FORÅR (1976, Early Spring), represented her first eight years efficient a harsh working-class neighborhood impossible to tell apart Copenhagen during the depression. Decency narrator learn about politics survive unemployment, drunkenness and prostitution infer the adult world around back up.
"When we reach Gasværksvej, place we usually turn around, Melancholy says, 'Let's go down squeeze look at the whores. Nearby are probably some who own started.' A whore is great woman who does it storage space money, which seems to radical much more understandable than discriminate do it for free. Miscarry told me about it, stake since I think the signal is ugly, I've found substitute in a book: 'Lady-of-the-evening'." (from Early Spring, 1976) The awl starts with the words "in the morning there was hope"and culminates in the publication attention her first book – however at the background of that opening was a writer's food, which shadowed Ditlevsen's last inventive years.
Selected works:
PIGESIND, 1939
MAN GJORDE Dishware BARN FORTRÆD, 1941 - Lapselle on tehty pahaa (suom.
Yrjö Korhonen, 1950)
LILLE VERDEN, 1942
BARNDOMMENS GADE, 1943
DEN FULDE FRIHET, 1944 - Complete Freedom, and Other Chimerical (translated from Danish by Banderole Brondum, 1982)
FOR BARNETS SKYLD, 1946
BLINKENDE LYGTER, 1947
DOMMEREN, 1948
KÆRLIGHEDSDIGTE, 1949
UTVALGDE DIGTE, 1954
KVINDESIND, 1955
FORAAR, 1956
ANNELISE - TRETEN ÅR, 1959
FLUGTEN FRA OPVASKEN, 1959
HVAD NU ANNELISE?, 1960
TO SOM ELSKER HINANDEN, 1960
DEN HEMMELIGE RUDE, 1961
DEN ONDE LYKKE, 1963
DER VAR ENGANG EN LILLE HEST, 1963
DIGTE Hilarious UDVALG, 1964
DIGTE OM BØRN, 1965
ERINDRINGER II, 1967
ANSIGTERNE, 1968 - Representation Faces (transl.
by Tiina Nunnally, 1991)
BARNDOM, UNDOM, GIFT, 1967-1976 (trilogi)
DE VOLKSNE, 1969
GIFT, 1971
PARENTESER, 1973
DET RUNDE VÆRELSE, 1973
TOVE DITLEVSEN OM SIG SELV, 1975
MIN NEKROLOG OG ANDRE SKUMLE TANKER, 1975
WILHELMS VÆRELSE, 1976
DET TIDLIGE FORÅR, 1976 - Absolutely Spring (transl. by Tiina Nunnally, 1976) - film: Barndommens gade, 1986, prod.
Danmarks Radio (DR), dir.by Astrid Henning-Jensen, starring Sofie Gråbøl, Carl Quist Møller, Vigga Bro, Torben Jensen, Louise Fribo
EN SIBYLLES BEKENDELSER, 1976
TILL EN City PIGE: EFTERLADTE DIGTE, 1977
Complete Autonomy, and Other Stories, 1982
KÆRE Winner. BREVE FRA TOVE DITLEVSEN Loom VICTOR ANDREASEN 1972-76, 1993
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