https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=550 Publications of Auteurs Christian Bank Pedersen fr 0 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=688 According to the famous study on royal transubstantiation by Ernst Kantorowicz, a king incarnates “two bodies”: the body natural and the body politic, the perishable body of the human individual and the eternal body of the institution. The obligation to personify this duality—which ideally forms a perfect unity—seems to be at the root of the misery felt by Christian VII during the entirety of his reign. King of Denmark-Norway from 1766 to 1808, the mentally unstable monarch considered himself profoundly out of place, being in his own eyes an impostor, an intruder, a “false” king. Consequently, he spent his whole life trying to escape his own role. Through a consideration of Christian VII’s relation to representation—theatrical and political—and of his strange need to physically and emotionally re-enact certain capital punishments officially carried out on his own orders, I examine the itinerary of this singularly unfree admirer of the Enlightenment’s thoughts on individual freedom; an itinerary that throws an interesting light on the institution of the Danish royalty at the end of the eighteenth century. jeu., 02 oct. 2025 12:01:33 +0200 mer., 03 déc. 2025 10:58:55 +0100 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=688 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=539 Longtemps négligée par la critique et les institutions littéraires, l’œuvre de la poétesse et romancière danoise Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) est aujourd’hui considérée comme l’une des plus significatives de la littérature scandinave contemporaine, entre autres en tant que précurseur du courant d’autofiction qui se répand dans la littérature du Nord depuis le début du siècle. Dans mon article, j’étudierai la trajectoire autobiographique de Ditlevsen, en me concentrant sur les réflexions – implicites et explicites – que propose l’auteure elle-même au sujet de son parcours artistique tout au long de son œuvre tardive, et particulièrement à travers les mémoires de son Enfance, de sa Jeunesse et de sa Dépendance, publiés vers 1970 et aujourd’hui connus sous le titre de Trilogie de Copenhague. Au cours de ces mémoires, l’auteure présente son entrée dans l’écriture littéraire comme un mouvement ambigu de libération, de protection et d’isolement vis-à-vis de son milieu prolétarien d’origine. Avant d’entrer dans l’univers de la Trilogie de Copenhague, je m’arrêterai par conséquent sur les implications et l’impact de son point de départ, à savoir la voie de l’enfance qu’est le quartier ouvrier de Vesterbro à Copenhague. Comme nous le verrons également, l’acceptation tardive de l’auteure par la critique est un phénomène intimement lié à son enfance vécue en bas de l’échelle sociale. For a long time neglected by critics and literary institutions, the work of the Danish poet and novelist Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) is today considered one of the most decisive in contemporary Scandinavian literature. Among other things, the author is seen as an important precursor of the trend of autofiction that has been spreading through the literature of the North since the turn of the century. In my article, I will study the autobiographical trajectory of Ditlevsen, focusing on the reflections—implicit and explicit—offered by the author herself throughout her late work. More specifically, I will propose a reading of Ditlevsen’s memoirs Childhood, Youth and Dependency, written and published around 1970, and posthumously gathered under the title The Copenhagen Trilogy. In this work, the author presents her engagement in literary writing as an ambiguous movement of liberation, protection, and isolation from her initial proletarian environment. Before entering the world of the The Copenhagen Trilogy, I will therefore consider the fundamental importance of its starting point —that is, the childhood of Tove Ditlevsen in the working-class district of Vesterbro, Copenhagen. As we will likewise see, the author’s belated acceptance by critics is a phenomenon intimately linked to her social status, namely her childhood spent at the bottom of the ladder. jeu., 25 sept. 2025 10:40:40 +0200 mer., 03 déc. 2025 11:48:40 +0100 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=539