On the Calculation of Volume
Tara Selter wakes every morning on the eighteenth of November. Balle takes a premise that could be a joke and follows its physics and its marriage entirely seriously.
Tara Selter wakes each morning on the eighteenth of November. Balle’s septology takes a premise that could be a joke and treats it with complete seriousness, following the physics of it, the marriage inside it, and the slow accumulation of a life lived in a single day. Danish, and unlike anything else.
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Maria Popova
In On the Calculation of Volume (public library) — her startlingly original reckoning with the bewilderments of time and love, partway between Einstein’s Dreams and Ulysses — Danish author Solvej Balle offers the best definition of love I’ve encountered since Iris Murdoch’s half a century ago
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