The tone of the novel is set from the very first page. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric’s Nike. She has published translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Olga Ravn and Ingvild Lothe. SHERYLIN NICOLETTE HELLBERG is a literary translator. Elastic is her second novel, originally published in Danish by Forlaget Gladiator in 2018. JOHANNE BILLE (b.1993) is a Danish novelist based in Copenhagen. She explores what it means to refuse settling – in a relationship, in society, and within oneself – and to want both love and community without being able to detach from the selfishness that brought us there in the first place.ĭescription 180 × 120 mm, 161 pages, Softcover Original A crush that has no place neither in Alice's relationship with Simon, in Mathilde’s marriage, or even in Alice herself.īille cleanly gleans the nebulous distinctions between love, sex and intimacy, exerting a softly fragmentary style that underpins Alice’s vacillations. About Alice’s silenced yet stormy crush on the enigmatic Mathilde. At the same time, Elastic is also a modern love story. She feels estranged from her own body, from her gender. About being a woman among other women, among men, and about being alone with one’s female body.
Alice’s precarious solution is to proceed into a quadrilateral relationship, impatient to define her own outline in the eyes of others.Įlastic is a novel about being a woman. But Mathilde is also mercurial and “perfectly” married to Alexander, and Alice is moving into a bigger flat with Simon who has just returned to her life. When Alice is with Mathilde, her experience of the world shifts, as though Mathilde brings with her a force that charges everything around her: the park bench, the sticky linoleum floor of the supermarket, their interlocked hands, the buttons on a winter coat. Translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Hellberg
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