Overview
""When Mondru's prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist's soul is a veritable party. . . . By God she's a great prose stylist full of character.""-Politiken Danish Women Writers Series Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist whose life is upended when her house burns down with all of the artworks for her upcoming exhibit inside. With little time left to recreate every-thing she's lost, Justine embarks on a series of sexual escapades with a sort of doomed intensity that foreshadows the novel's final, dark twist. Through flashbacks and fragmented memories, we see Justine as a student at the Art Academy first discovering the misogynistic order that rules the Danish art world, and later on as she constantly challenges its expectations-both in the studio and in bed. A personal meditation on artistic identity, creative process, and the male-dominated art scene, the novel veers between the erotic and the savage, resulting in a spellbinding read from one of Denmark's edgiest contemporary feminist writers. Iben Mondrup is a trained visual artist from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts who is also the author of four novels, including Justine, its sequel, and Godhavn. Kerri A. Pierce has published translations from seven different languages in a variety of genres-fiction and nonfiction, novel and short story. Her translation of The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Full Product Details
Author: Iben Mondrup ,
Kerri A. Pierce
Publisher: Open Letter
Imprint: Open Letter
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9781940953489
ISBN 10: 1940953480
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 01 December 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The novel positively emanates energetic prose, as suspense-laden tracks which retain our interest in the female Don Juan who insists on not being a female Don Juan are generously laid bare. Â STANDART
Author Information
Iben Mondrup is a trained visual artist from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts who is also the author of four novels, including Justine, its sequel, and Godhavn. Kerri A. Pierce has published translations from seven different languages in a variety of genres-fiction and non-fiction, novel and short story. Her translation of The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A. Skomsvold was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
