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Reality Under My Skin, by Lauren Oyler

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure Photograph of Tove Ditlevsen © Jette Ladegaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AP Images Discussed in this essay: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency, by Tove Ditlevsen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 384 pages. $30. A re you sad? Unmoored? Confused? As a child were you deemed “sensitive,” as a young person “fragile”? Do others comment that you seem emotionally unsuited to the life you admittedly can’t believe you’re still living? Are your feelings often hurt? Do you believe that everything used to be better, but struggle to come up with examples of how? Does the thought of reality make you want to go back to bed? Are you in bed right now? If so, I have some book recommendations for you. In recent years, the feminist project of uncovering “forgotten” female writers and artists has yielded—among other fruits—a steady stream of “rediscovered” mid-twentieth-century works that those of us prone to weltschmerz may find

January 2021 Issue [Reviews] Reality Under My Skin Tove Ditlevsen’s relentless clarity by Lauren Oyler , Photograph of Tove Ditlevsen © Jette Ladegaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AP Images [Reviews] Reality Under My Skin Tove Ditlevsen’s relentless clarity by Lauren Oyler , Adjust Share Discussed in this essay: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency, by Tove Ditlevsen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 384 pages. $30. Are you sad? Unmoored? Confused? As a child were you deemed “sensitive,” as a young person “fragile”? Do others comment that you seem emotionally unsuited to the life you admittedly c

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