The final volume in the renowned Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen-s autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy("A masterpiece"-The Guardian). Following Childhood and Youth, Dependency is the searing portrait of a woman-s journey through love, friendship, ambition, and addiction, from one of Denmark-s most celebrated twentieth century writers
Tove is only twenty, but she''s already famous, a published poet, and the wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, yet she has no idea of the struggles ahead-love affairs, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failure, and destructive addiction. As the years go by, the central tension of Tove''s life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of dependency, in all its forms, and the possibility of living freely and fearlessly-as an artist on her own terms.
The final volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, and arguably Ditlevsen''s masterpiece, Dependency is a
