Copenhagen - Literature in Translation Series

Fiction. Translated from the Danish by P. K. Brask. COPENHAGEN is a collection of eleven short stories that map the city of Kobenhavn through subtle intertextuality. Each story takes place in a different location within the urban landscape, and these sites become a network through which its citizens move, their lives brushing up against each other but without ever connecting. Parents neglect their children in the face of everyday chores; husbands cheat on their wives with little gratification; hit-and-run drivers go home and make tomato soup. The narratives lead the reader through a landscape where consciousness, both social and poetic, become the city and the text, isolated and connected, orchestrated and restless. Guldager's tales exude what was for Goethe the core of the short story: "the unheard-of event."