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Havoc

By Tom Kristensen
Introduction by Morten Høi Jensen
Translated by Carl Malmberg

By Tom Kristensen
Introduction by Morten Høi Jensen
Translated by Carl Malmberg

By Tom Kristensen
Introduction by Morten Høi Jensen
Translated by Carl Malmberg

By Tom Kristensen
Introduction by Morten Høi Jensen
Translated by Carl Malmberg

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Jun 12, 2018 | ISBN 9781681372075

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Jun 12, 2018 | ISBN 9781681372082

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    About Havoc

    A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over eighty years until now.


    Ole Jastrau is the very model of an enterprising and ambitious young man of letters, poised on the brink of what is sure to be a distinguished career as a critic. In fact he is teetering on the brink of an emotional and moral abyss. Bored with his beautiful wife and chafing at the burdens of fatherhood, disdainful of the commercialism and political opportunism of the newspaper he works for, he feels more and more that his life lacks meaning. He flirts with Catholicism and flirts with Communism, but somehow he doesn’t have the makings of a true believer. Then he takes up with the bottle, a truly meaningful relationship. “Slowly and quietly,” he intends to go to the dogs.

    Jastrau’s romance with self-destruction will take him through all the circles of hell. The process will be anything but slow and quiet.

    About Havoc

    A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over eighty years until now.

    Ole Jastrau is the very model of an enterprising and ambitious young man of letters, poised on the brink of what is sure to be a distinguished career as a critic. In fact he is teetering on the brink of an emotional and moral abyss. Bored with his beautiful wife and chafing at the burdens of fatherhood, disdainful of the commercialism and political opportunism of the newspaper he works for, he feels more and more that his life lacks meaning. He flirts with Catholicism and flirts with Communism, but somehow he doesn’t have the makings of a true believer. Then he takes up with the bottle, a truly meaningful relationship. “Slowly and quietly,” he intends to go to the dogs.

    Jastrau’s romance with self-destruction will take him through all the circles of hell. The process will be anything but slow and quiet.

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $18.95
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Jun 12, 2018 | 528 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781681372075

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Jun 12, 2018 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9781681372082
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    Praise

    “Havoc is one of the best novels to ever come out of Scandinavia. As discomforting as it is beautiful, it portrays the fall of a man, and it’s so hypnotically written that you want to fall with him.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard

    “The Ulysses as well as the Steppenwolf of Danish literature.” —Nina Rosenstand

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