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Madame Nielsen - Lamento, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Lamento

Av Madame Nielsen

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Lamento is a love story that questions the possibility of reconciling the magic of infatuation with everyday life. The story begins with a fire – an image which permeates the novel. The narrator, a writer, meets a theatre artist; their love feels ecstatic and utopian, completely untouched by the outside world.But with the birth of a child, the weight of the everyday turns their passion destructive. The woman fights for every minute she can to write, while the man abandons family life to focus on his art. Their private drama is further confronted by the jagged realities of colonialism and injustice, forcing them to see themselves as part of a violent history they cannot escape. As love turns to hate, we follow their restless search to understand the enigma of love.In a startling act of reverse auto-fiction, Madame Nielsen – a legendary figure of the Danish avant-garde – inhabits the voice of the woman she once loved to interrogate the man she once was. The result is an unsparing reconciliation of gender and memory, a lament that strips away self-pity to expose the narcissistic cost of creative obsession, and a meditation on how gender alters our experience of the world.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-09
  • Mått: 181 x 22 x 113 mm
  • Vikt: 130 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
  • ISBN: 9781913513894
  • Översättare: Gaye Kynoch
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of English PEN Translates Award 2025
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Madame Nielsen is a novelist, artist, performer, world history enactor, composer, chanteuse – and multi-gendered. In a previous life christened as Claus Beck-Nielsen in 1963 in Tønder, Denmark, she and her ancestors are the authors of numerous literary works. A pioneer of ‘performative biographies’ and ‘Scandinavian autofiction’, the artist declared the death of Claus Beck-Nielsen in 2001, published Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963–2001): A Biography, followed by The Suicide Mission, reappeared in 2013 and continues to work as Madame Nielsen. They were thrice nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. The Endless Summer was Madame Nielsen’s international break-through and was a bestseller in Germany. Her work has been translated into nine languages. Gaye Kynoch is a literary translator whose extensive portfolio spans works of theatre and fiction, plus books, essays and articles across the arts and humanities. A long-term collaborator with Madame Nielsen, Kynoch has translated a wide range of Nielsen’s work, including plays, song lyrics and prose. She approaches translation with a musician’s ear, treating the text as a complex orchestral score – a philosophy that allows her to navigate the intricate rhythms, literary references and philosophical motifs central to Nielsen’s prose.

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