The faces
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1918-19762020
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Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself lead to enlightenment? Brief, intense and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel recreates the experience of madness from the inside, with all the vividness of lived experience.
Main title:
The faces / Tove Ditlevsen ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Author:
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1918-1976, authorNunnally, Tiina, 1952-, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2020.
Collation:
176 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Danish.
ISBN:
9780241391914 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
839.81372
Language:
EnglishDanish
BRN:
1138851