»… Jeg er overhovedet ikke født på Amager. At jeg valgte at gøre netop denne ø til mine drømmes landskab, må nok forklares som det kunstneriske kapital-bedrageri i min karriere. Jeg ville så langt væk fra rødderne som muligt, jeg løb som en hurtigtgående destroyer med alle tågemaskinerne på fulde omdrejninger på flugt fra min oprindelse, mig selv og mit jeg og valgte det sumpede distrikt syd for Kalveboderne som revir på samme måde som Beckett bruger vejsiden eller stranden ved verdens ende, Ibsen dagligstuen, O’Neill værtshuset, Faulkner Yoknapatawpa County og Daudet en mølle til sit« …
»Dobbeltgængeren afklæder den mondæne og den naive bekendelseslitteratur ved at udstille nogle af dens manerer, men inden der er gået så lang tid, tager den selv fart og bliver en diabolsk historie, der lever på sine egne vilkår ved at overleve sit udgangspunkt«. – Torben Brostrøm, Information
Klaus Rifbjerg was a Danish writer. He has written more than 120 novels, books and essays. His breakthrough was in 1958 with the novel Den kroniske Uskyld. Since then he has published more than 100 novels as well as poetry and short story collections, plays, TV and radio plays, film scripts, children's books, and diaries. Rifbjerg was also known as a journalist and critic.
nie wiem jak ocenić te książkę, nie rozumiem jej i bez głębszej analizy, opracowania mam wrażenie, że nie da się z nią ani trochę sympatyzować. najdziwniejsza książka jaka kiedykolwiek czytałam.
honestly the only book i remember from the course on scandinavian literature i took last year. it's the wildest thing i've ever read and i will probably never forget the plot of this book. i literally tell every single person i meet about "dobbeltgænger" because it's such a conversation starter. said conversation usually starts with "what the fuck is your required reading list"
hoNESTLY, a masterpiece. will drill into your brain and awkward connotations and passages from this book will pop up unexpectedly in your mind even after a long period of time. (although reading it on a tram felt way weirder than reading 50 shades of grey would feel). my biggest regret is that we haven't had a class about this book, because to this day I still don't know what the fuck it was about. a true Scandinavian Classic.
It is so bad i want to give you a zero but that's not possible so i give you a one. Klaus przyznaj się na co chorowałeś, bo to można usprawiedliwić tylko w ten sposób.