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 Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg
 Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg ... 1929. All show different facets of love ? love as violence, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom. Each has as a theme a particular discipline: mathematics, dance, law, visual arts, medicine, drama and astronomy. A young mathematician is led to an understanding of Europe?s 19th century Scramble for Africa by a meeting with a fellow train passenger who reveals himself to be Joseph Conrad. A respected judge confesses his love for a young homosexual who he has convicted of immorality. A small, insular town is ravaged by a smallpox epidemic. Set in the Congo, on a small sailing boat off Lisbon, in the Baltic archipelago and in the author?s native Denmark, these intricate and surprising stories, powerfully but wonderfully influenced by the work of Karen Blixen, amount to a rich and rewarding book.Newest Review: ... of the first train to travel on the railway line between Cabinda and Katanga in Central Africa. There's a young Danish ... more ... man, who has given up studying mathematics and is working for a trading company, a one-eyed German general, and a reporter called Joseph Korzeniowski, accompanied by a black servant girl. The three men have a philosophical and political conversation before their journey is terminated unexpectedly. Now Joseph Korzeniowski was the real name of novelist Joseph Conrad, who was most famous for writing Heart of Darkness, set in Africa. Y'see what's going on here? It's very enigmatic, but it went right over my head...more |
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Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg: The random particle collisions known as love. (1512 words)
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It must be really cool being Danish and having that little picture of Saturn in your name, instead of a boring old letter 'o'. Y'know if he'd been British, everyone would have assumed that it was a crossed-out letter 'o' and called him Peter Heg! Now I first came across that little picture of Saturn (I'm sure Malu or alkaliguru will tell us its proper name in the comments) while reading a book called Contact Lost by Leif Hamre when I was a lad. Contact Lost won the Norwegian State Prize for the best children's book, but it hasn't made my Top Ten Children's Books - which is now due around Easter by the way. ;¬) (By the ... Read the complete review
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