More than a Room: Variations on a Childhood Home in Klaus Rifbjerg
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More than a Room : Variations on a Childhood Home in Klaus Rifbjerg. / Reeh, Henrik.
I: Costellazioni. Rivista di lingue e letterature, Bind 20, 2022.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - More than a Room
T2 - Variations on a Childhood Home in Klaus Rifbjerg
AU - Reeh, Henrik
N1 - Contribution to special issue on "Spatiality as interpretative approach to contemporary Scandinavian culture and literature", to be published in spring 2022
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Klaus Rifbjerg (1931-2015) is the author of 150 books – a literary œuvre that stands out as a monument of post-war Danish welfare in a modernist middle-class version.While divorces soon split up many families and their homes, Rifbjerg’s childhood home remains intact from before his birth until the mid-1980s. Moreover, it is named in his writing spanning the lyrical début in 1956 and a book on architecture from 2008. This article explores four different contexts – poetry, memoirs, literary montage, essayism – in which Rifbjerg addresses his childhood home as a house. In particular, the study highlights the literary staging of his own room, including the bed. The individual room is central to the narrator’s childhood and adolescence. But it also represents a limited interiority that may be transgressed, and give way to new subjectivities, elsewhere. Later on, Rifbjerg keeps writing (on) his childhood house that he finally posits as a matrix of his aesthetic values and practices.
AB - Klaus Rifbjerg (1931-2015) is the author of 150 books – a literary œuvre that stands out as a monument of post-war Danish welfare in a modernist middle-class version.While divorces soon split up many families and their homes, Rifbjerg’s childhood home remains intact from before his birth until the mid-1980s. Moreover, it is named in his writing spanning the lyrical début in 1956 and a book on architecture from 2008. This article explores four different contexts – poetry, memoirs, literary montage, essayism – in which Rifbjerg addresses his childhood home as a house. In particular, the study highlights the literary staging of his own room, including the bed. The individual room is central to the narrator’s childhood and adolescence. But it also represents a limited interiority that may be transgressed, and give way to new subjectivities, elsewhere. Later on, Rifbjerg keeps writing (on) his childhood house that he finally posits as a matrix of his aesthetic values and practices.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Klaus Rifbjerg (1931-2015)
KW - Danish Literature
KW - childhood home
KW - individual room
KW - bed
KW - Copenhagen
KW - Amager
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
JO - Costellazioni. Rivista di lingue e letterature
JF - Costellazioni. Rivista di lingue e letterature
ER -
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