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Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm: Tidlige digte
Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm er nyfundne tidlige digte af Inger Christensen - og et unikt vidnesbyrd om den tidlige udvikling i et af dansk litteraturs mest betydningsfulde forfatterskaber. Her findes overrumplende digte om kærlighed og ensomhed side om side med vildtvoksende og komplekse tekster om natur, bevidsthed og sprog – og de hemmelige tråde, som forbinder det hele. Og gennem hver tekst strømmer – i stemninger, rytme, billedsprog og overraskende åbenbaringer – den særlige Inger Christenske tone, som har gjort hende til en af Danmarks største digtere.Digtene i Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm er skrevet fra 1955 til 1960. Inger Christensen udgav sin første digtsamling, Lys, i 1962.Bogen er redigeret af Inger Christensens søn, Peter Borum, som også har skrevet forord.
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175 pages, Paperback
Published May 2, 2023
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About the author
Inger Christensen
73 books149 followersInger Christensen was born in Vejle, Denmark, in 1935. Initially she studied medicine, but then trained as a teacher and worked at the College of Art in Holbæk from 1963–64. Although she has also written a novel, stories, essays, radio plays, a drama and an opera libretto, Christensen is primarily known for her linguistically skilled and powerful poetry.
Christensen first became known to a wider audience with the volumes "Lys" (1962; Light) and "Græs" (1963; Grass), which are much influenced by the modernistic imagery of the 60s, and in which she is concerned with the location of the lyric "I" in relation to natural and culturally created reality. The flat, regular landscape of Denmark, its plants and animals, the beach, the sea, the snow-filled winters have determined the topography of many of her poems. Christensen has also been known internationally since the appearance of the long poem "Det" (1969; "it" 2006), a form of creative report on the merger of language and the world, which centres around the single word "it" and covers more than two hundred pages. The book clearly reveals the influence on Christensen's poetic work of such a range of authors as Lars Gustafsson, Noam Chomsky, Viggo Brøndal, R.D. Laing and Søren Kierkegaard. The analogy between the development of poetic language and the growth of life is, as in "Det", also the basic motif of the volume of poetry "Alfabet" (1981; Alphabet). In addition to the alphabet itself – which gives the book its title and provides a logical arrangement for its fourteen sections –, the structure is generated by the so-called Fibonacci series, in which every number consists of the sum of the preceding two. The composition reflects the theme exactly: while "Det" points to the story of creation and its "In the beginning was the Word", here the alphabet is a pointer to the "A and O" of the apocalypse.
The story of her life and work offers access to a poetry that is difficult and enigmatic, but simultaneously simple and elementary. Inger Christensen is one of the most reflecting, form-conscious poets of the present day, and her history of ideas also provides information on the paradox of lyric art; making legible through poetic means what must necessary remain illegible, and in this way wrestling a specific order from the universal labyrinth. Here the transitions between the poet and the essayist Christensen are fluid: just as lyrical figures and motifs give her essays a density of their own, figures of thought and configurations of ideas return as an organic component of the poems.
Christensen first became known to a wider audience with the volumes "Lys" (1962; Light) and "Græs" (1963; Grass), which are much influenced by the modernistic imagery of the 60s, and in which she is concerned with the location of the lyric "I" in relation to natural and culturally created reality. The flat, regular landscape of Denmark, its plants and animals, the beach, the sea, the snow-filled winters have determined the topography of many of her poems. Christensen has also been known internationally since the appearance of the long poem "Det" (1969; "it" 2006), a form of creative report on the merger of language and the world, which centres around the single word "it" and covers more than two hundred pages. The book clearly reveals the influence on Christensen's poetic work of such a range of authors as Lars Gustafsson, Noam Chomsky, Viggo Brøndal, R.D. Laing and Søren Kierkegaard. The analogy between the development of poetic language and the growth of life is, as in "Det", also the basic motif of the volume of poetry "Alfabet" (1981; Alphabet). In addition to the alphabet itself – which gives the book its title and provides a logical arrangement for its fourteen sections –, the structure is generated by the so-called Fibonacci series, in which every number consists of the sum of the preceding two. The composition reflects the theme exactly: while "Det" points to the story of creation and its "In the beginning was the Word", here the alphabet is a pointer to the "A and O" of the apocalypse.
The story of her life and work offers access to a poetry that is difficult and enigmatic, but simultaneously simple and elementary. Inger Christensen is one of the most reflecting, form-conscious poets of the present day, and her history of ideas also provides information on the paradox of lyric art; making legible through poetic means what must necessary remain illegible, and in this way wrestling a specific order from the universal labyrinth. Here the transitions between the poet and the essayist Christensen are fluid: just as lyrical figures and motifs give her essays a density of their own, figures of thought and configurations of ideas return as an organic component of the poems.
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May 12, 2023
En håndfuld hidtil uudgivne ungdomsdigte heriblandt et hjerteklippet faksimile fra Inger Christensens hånd har indtil nu været gemt hos venner fra seminarietiden i Aarhus men møder nu offentligheden.
Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm er en meget smuk læseoplevelse, der er klare træk af de nærmest magisk fuldendte samlinger, der senere flyder fra Ingers hånd.
Når Inger skriver om den bevidsthed der kasted’ det første radioaktive lys ind sig selv, eller om mennesket som vinterens grænse, givet det et lille sus i en læser, der er velberejst i forfatterens senere værker.
Men det er også dejligt at se mere ufuldendte sider af en 20-25 årig Inger Christensen, hvor kærlighedsdigte om kys, første møde, med sætninger som, elskede stå op bliv rum og lad os falde, fylder mere end det senere stærke fokus på verden rundt om menneskene. Og hvor blæk kan være noget så Caspar Ericsk som permanent black i sin flaske.
Jeg synes i hvertfald kun at denne samling med dens mere fragmenterede stykker af skønhed og inderlig indsigt (unge Inger var ret vild med allitterationer) bidrager til det samlede forfatterskab.
En digter på vej til at bryde barrieren mellem sprog og verden, ord og fænomen.
Min pinefulde stumhed brister:
hører I, rum og verden -
jeg er et menneske i nød -
men hører I: jeg vil jeg vil
Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm er en meget smuk læseoplevelse, der er klare træk af de nærmest magisk fuldendte samlinger, der senere flyder fra Ingers hånd.
Når Inger skriver om den bevidsthed der kasted’ det første radioaktive lys ind sig selv, eller om mennesket som vinterens grænse, givet det et lille sus i en læser, der er velberejst i forfatterens senere værker.
Men det er også dejligt at se mere ufuldendte sider af en 20-25 årig Inger Christensen, hvor kærlighedsdigte om kys, første møde, med sætninger som, elskede stå op bliv rum og lad os falde, fylder mere end det senere stærke fokus på verden rundt om menneskene. Og hvor blæk kan være noget så Caspar Ericsk som permanent black i sin flaske.
Jeg synes i hvertfald kun at denne samling med dens mere fragmenterede stykker af skønhed og inderlig indsigt (unge Inger var ret vild med allitterationer) bidrager til det samlede forfatterskab.
En digter på vej til at bryde barrieren mellem sprog og verden, ord og fænomen.
Min pinefulde stumhed brister:
hører I, rum og verden -
jeg er et menneske i nød -
men hører I: jeg vil jeg vil
September 22, 2024
3,5 ★
A collection of early poems that don't necessarily have anything to do with one another except for the fact that they're all written within the same 10 (or so) years.
Though it wasn't my favourite poetry collection of Christensen I can find enjoyment in sensing a young and experimental poet finding her language<3
A collection of early poems that don't necessarily have anything to do with one another except for the fact that they're all written within the same 10 (or so) years.
Though it wasn't my favourite poetry collection of Christensen I can find enjoyment in sensing a young and experimental poet finding her language<3
December 11, 2023
Inger C's unge digte, der har ligget hos venner og bekendte - og allerede dengang var hun god og havde rytme.
May 10, 2025
Ku godt lide de første poems, det var ikke fordi de gav meget mening, men hvis man tænkte meget over hvad der stod, så følte jeg det ramte dybt
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