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OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Review)
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World Literature Today
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January 1, 1999| Author:
Kops, Henri; Schoolfield, George C.; Sondrup, Steven P.; Schiander Gray, Charlotte; Thresher, Tanya; Stendahl, Brita; Oster, Rose-Marie G.; Kratz, Henry; Wright, Rochelle; Baron, Henry J.; Stynen, Ludo; Staal, Arie
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Danish
Thorkild Bjornvig. Samlede digte 1947-93. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 1998. 497 pages. ISBN 87-00-32274-1.
Thorkild Bjornvig's collected poems, published in observance of his eightieth birthday, will bring enormous pleasure to admirers of his work; unfortunately, the volume does not include his three books of translations from Rilke (1949, 1957, 1958), where his close knowledge of and affinity for the Austrian poet-and his own great verbal gifts-make these ...
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OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Review)
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; Danish Thorkild Bjornvig. Samlede digte 1947-93. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 1998. 497 pages. ISBN 87-00-32274-1. Thorkild Bjornvig's collected poems, published in observance of his eightieth birthday, will bring enormous pleasure to admirers of his work; unfortunately, the volume does not include his
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World Literature Today
; Willem Brakman. De koning is dood. Amsterdam. Querido. 1999. 198 pages. 39.90 fl. ISBN 90-214-5419-x. WILLEM BRAKMAN'S forty-sixth novel, De koning is dood (The King Is Dead), develops a surrealistic dreamscape: I seriously had to consider whether I was dreaming or whether I was wandering through
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Scandinavian Studies
; This current selection of Thorkild Bjornvig's (b. 1918) poems, is a welcome addition to the somewhat meager corpus of recent Danish lyric poetry in translation. The title refers to the mythical word tree Yggdrasil -- A tree which is the well-spring of life and knowledge yet under attack on all
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On Branner, on Blixen: the battle over Rytteren.
Scandinavian Studies
; IN A RECENT ARTICLE on H.C. Branner, the critic Erik Skyum-Nielsen referred to Branner's once revered, post-World War II novel Rytteren (1949; [The Riding Master]) as uspiselig ( To minutters 25) [indigestible] to the modern reader. When first published, Rytteren captured the fancy of both the
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Klaus Rifbjerg. Alea: En tilfaeldighedsroman.(Book Review)
World Literature Today
; Klaus Rifbjerg. Alea: En tilfaeldighedsroman. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 2003. 463 pages. Dkr. 348. ISBN 87-02-00719-3 KLAUS RIFBJERG'S recent work, Alea: En tilfaeldighedsroman (Alea: An accidental novel), combines imaginary episodes; fragments of an autobiography and a biography of a character who
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