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Ditte Everywoman (Girl Alive. Daughter of Man. Toward the Stars.) (Paperback, Complete ed.)
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Ditte Everywoman (Girl Alive. Daughter of Man. Toward the Stars.) (Paperback, Complete ed.)
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From the author of Pelle the Conqueror: Martin Andersen Nexo
(1869-1954): Ditte Everywoman is a long rich work in three volumes,
full of the kind of poetic detail found only in books like Gorki's
and O'Casey's autobiographies; it has been generally unobtainable
in this country for a long time now. It is a first-rate novel
interpreting a working woman's life. In the first volume of the
trilogy, Ditte is truly Girl Alive-alive to all the bittersweet
experiences of life in a poor family struggling for survival. The
locale is Denmark, peasant country, at the beginning of the 20th
century. But it becomes sharply here and now by virtue of Nexo's
masterful understanding of social forces. The second and third
volumes (Daughter of Man, and Towards The Stars) carry Ditte into
maturity from her servant days at the Hill Farm to work in the
capital city, Copenhagen. Martin Andersen Nexo's writing is
magnificent throughout: the giant simplicity of an enduring folk
tale. And without any overt psychologizing, he probes deep into his
characters. Ditte, growing up to young womanhood, is revealed in
her complexities, her doubts and her rainbow joys. She participates
in all experiences, hers is no shallow stream of consciousness, but
a plunging into the moving current of life. She becomes
truly-Ditte, Everywoman.
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