· Jensen, the son of a sailor, has set We, the Drowned in the Danish port city of Marstal, where generations of his own family have lived their lives and shore www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen There's a sameness about the lives of sailors before the mast and miners below ground and whether you drown at sea when a ship goes down in a howling gail or die of starvation and foul air after a mine collapse the result is the /5(). · His “we” is rather like the chorus of Greek tragedy—homogeneous and boundless, sometimes judging and always interpreting. The “we” of We, Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Carsten Jensen's debut novel has taken the world by storm. Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, whose inhabitants have sailed the world's oceans aboard freight ships for centuries. We, The Drownedby Carsten Jensen and Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder. " We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war's confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike A gorgeous, unsparing novel." -- Washington Post. Jensen bravely elected to narrate We, the Drowned in the first-person plural, and the power of his novel is owed also to this ambiguous but omniscient www.doorway.ru first-person plural is a rarely.
Jensen, the son of a sailor, has set We, the Drowned in the Danish port city of Marstal, where generations of his own family have lived their lives and shore leaves. His “we” is rather like the chorus of Greek tragedy—homogeneous and boundless, sometimes judging and always interpreting. The “we” of We, the Drowned is a haunting voice—a whole. WE, THE DROWNED is the title of an adventurous novel by Carsten Jensen, about the greatness and fall of Marstal, his city of birth – a tale about bold sailors, who defy fate, death and family in order to conquer the sea.
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