The Tell-All Memoirist Who Shied Away From Fame
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“The cruel, gray facts,” unlike the “truths in your heart,” are a matter of record, the Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen writes in Childhood (1967), the first volume of her trilogy of memoirs, known in English as The Copenhagen Trilogy . “No one can change them. Therefore: I was born on December 14, 1918, in a little two-room apartment in Vesterbro in Copenhagen.” Except that is not the fact. She was born in 1917. What to make of this blatant falsehood, undercutting the seeming guilelessness of this spectacular trilogy? Perhaps 1918 seemed a more auspicious start, marking her as the child of a…
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The Tell-All Memoirist Who Shied Away From Fame
“The cruel, gray facts,” unlike the “truths in your heart,” are a matter of record, the Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen writes in Childhood (1967), the first volume of her trilogy of memoirs, known in English as The Copenhagen Trilogy . “No one can change them. Therefore: I was...
