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The condition of secrecy : selected essays / Inger Christensen ; translated by Susanna Nied.
Van Pelt Library PT8176.13.H727 H4613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Inger, 1935-2009, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Hemmelighedstilstanden. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Danish essays.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Danish.
- Summary:
- "[Christensen] formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with memories of Christensen's school years during the Nazi occupation of Denmark), and others are political, touching on the Cold War and Chernobyl. The Condition of Secrecy also covers the Ars Poetica of Lu Chi (261-303 CE); William Blake and Isaac Newton; and such topics as randomness as a universal force and the role of the writer as an agent of social change"--Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- "New Directions Paperbook Original 1430."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Christensen, Inger, 1935-2009 author. Condition of secrecy.
- ISBN:
- 9780811228114
- 0811228118
- OCLC:
- 1038043657
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