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Villy Sørensen

Born

in Valby, Denmark

February 13, 1929

Died

December 16, 2001

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Humor

Influences

Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Herman Broch, Søren Kierkegaard

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Villy Sørensen (13 January 1929 – 16 December 2001) was a Danish short-story writer, philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard. He is the most influential and important Danish philosopher since Søren Kierkegaard.

Born in Copenhagen, Sørensen graduated from the Vestre Borgerdydskole in 1947, and then attended the University of Copenhagen and the University of Freiburg studying philosophy. Although he did not graduate, he later received an honorary degree from the University of Copenhagen.

Sørensen published his first collection of short stories, Strange Stories in 1953, which many critics have identified as be ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 1,233 ratings · 117 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Downfall of the Gods - Ragnarok 3.79 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sære historier 3.82 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ufarlige historier 3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seneca. Om vrede, om mildhed, om sindsro 4.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blot en drengestreg 3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tutelary Tales (Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation) by Villy Sørensen, Sven H. Rossel (Afterword), Paula Hostrup-Jessen (Translation) 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apollons oprør - de udødeliges historie 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Metamorphosis and Other Fictions by Villy Sørensen, Tiina Nunnally (Translator), Steve Murray (Translator) 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den berømte Odysseus 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nietzsche 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have now said what I came to say. I had hoped to receive the fruits of a god's wisdom in reply - not the stupidity of a hammer.”
― Villy Sørensen, The Downfall of the Gods - Ragnarok

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