“Det mest sympatiske ved Espedals forfatterskab er den usvigelige vilje til at mindes dem … som ikke har status eller fremtidsudsigter

writing again — the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful

der lader sig falde ned på skinnerne fra de kørende fangetransporter

en far fra Sydhavet

In these entries it speaks another tongue

The Seducer's Diary “Det mest sympatiske ved EspedalsIn the vast literature of love, The Seducers Diary is an intricate curiositya feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast, observes John Updike in his foreword to Sren Kierkegaards narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaards first major volume, Either Or, springs from his relationship with his fiance, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his