Addiction, Final Chapter Ditlevsen’s Copenhagen Trilogy – Books – Fiction

(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 18 – TOVE DITLEVSEN, DEPENDENCE (FAZI, PP 250, EURO 18). The final chapter, ‘Addiction’, of the Copenhagen trilogy by the Danish poet and storyteller Tove Ditlevsen arrives in bookstores on April 4th. In the novel, the writer, considered the Danish Ernaux of the twentieth century, reaches the pinnacle of intensity and truth in the story of her tormented life, marked by alcohol and drugs. Published by Fazi Editore, translated by Alessandro Storti, together with ‘Infanzia’ and ‘Gioventù’ (released in 2022 again by Fazi), it is the portrait of a woman through love, friendship and ambition in all its forms. shapes. A journey that makes us rediscover Ditlevsen who in a certain sense was the forerunner of autofiction in its highest form.

Tove at twenty is already famous, she is a published poet and is the wife of a much older publisher. Her path seems marked, but many battles still await her: tormented love affairs, desired and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failures and a series of destructive addictions. As the years pass, the central tension of Tove’s life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of addiction, in all its forms, and the ability to live freely and fearlessly, as an artist, her way.

Born in 1917 and died by suicide in 1976, with four marriages and four divorces behind her, Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen in ‘Addiction’ gives a dark and honest account of the addictions of her life and the possible ways out. (HANDLE).