Krumspring

by Søren Jessen

Åse Hertz er inviteret til Rom for at lave illustrationer til en roman. Hun er egentlig holdt op med at tegne for at passe sit job på et reklamebureau, men forfatteren har overtalt hende og sørget for hotel i den evige stad.Det lovede manuskript er ikke dukket op, og snart er Åse marionet i et sindrigt spil, hun ikke aner, hvad går ud på, alt imens hun laver skitser og tegninger af en by, der begynder at krybe under huden på hende.KRUMSPRING leger på sindrig vis med både Åses og læserens forventninger, og med Italiens hovedstad som malerisk kulisse serveres en fortælling om livets og verdens er både en roman om den kunstneriske skabelsesproces, en spændingsroman om forfølgelse og angst, og en psykologisk afdækning af en kvindelig kunstners vej ud af krisen. Kompleksiteten, det stramme sprog og de overraskende indfald gør Jessens roman særdeles fængende og tankevækkende.[...] Krumspring [er] guf for den læser, der ønsker udfordringer og kunstnerisk vovemod.(Kristeligt Dagblad)Søren Jessen har begået en fin og finurlig fortælling om alt det uvirkelige, der gør det hele til at holde ud.(StandArt)En tankevækkende og underholdende roman, der i sin slutning undlader at få sin egen uendelighedsarkitektur til at bryde sammen. Det er fint gjort.(Jyllands-Posten)

134 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 26, 2011

About the author

Søren Jessen is a Danish author and illustrator.

Already as a child he was an avid cartoonist, and he succeeded in making comics that were printed in various underground magazines.

In the mid-1980s, he began writing stories on a newly purchased typewriter. The beginning of the novel Zambesi, which twelve years later - in 2000 - received the Book Forum's debutant award, was written at the time. He also wrote picture book texts, and it was with the picture book "Dino rejser til byen", that Søren Jessen made his debut as a writer with in 1990.

Since then he has written and illustrated many picture books, chapter books and novels.

Reviews

[Simon Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an enjoyable story and perfect reading practice for anyone new to the Danish language. The plot, in which a young female artist goes through a series of strange experiences in Rome, seems to derive from John Fowles’ The Magus but it’s sufficiently different to stand on its own. I liked the scene in the church with Thorvaldsen’s sculptures and thought of it when I visited the site in Copenhagen a few years ago.