The Faces
Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
ISBN: 9780241391914
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy
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.
ISBN: 9780241391914
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy
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.
