The heroine of the story Helle Helle, twenty Jane suffers from atrophy of feeling. At least it mocks the world as if she shared her experiences of any boundary. The Danish story consists of raw, minimalist descriptions of what Jane does. What do I feel? Or stagnation in life means both an emotional slump? I admit that, "Ferry to Puttgarden" is recognized primarily by ambiguity. cool narration, short declarative sentences, simple dialogue ... from beginning to end we are dealing with prose, posing a distance. Meanwhile, Helle Helle writes about attempts crossing distance, outreach to the world and their own desires. Is this cost, therefore, only the verbal record of what they can not be expressed through words or creative prose, into which it is impossible to reach? ... know Jane particularly in her relationships with men crippled. Similarly, it was a painful experience of the male presence for her mother and grandmother. Both very quickly retreated from any contact with men. Is Jane is doomed to a fate and the family does not find happiness at the side of man? Male characters in this novel a lot. Each of them, however, treats the narrator as a mother and grandmother Jane treat all men trying to approach them. With a great distance. Jane is able to talk with men, but is not able to go beyond words. It will not help her, even the illusion that the side of a Danish electrician working in Germany will find your happiness ...
male-female relationships are not as important in prose Helle Helle. Becomes more conspicuous metaphor crawl space. It is the sea area between Denmark and Germany, which traverses the ferry, which Jane is working salesperson. On one hand, constant motion, the other static bounced from one port to another. On the ferry also runs sister Jane, Tine. Both travel in specific pockets in which conceal their true desires.
Tine life experience is also the case, to which Jane is far away. The same appears to be far from her sister, even though every day tenderly cares for her daughter and reiterates will to support them both. Tine away from Jane distance comparable to that crawl on the ferry every day. Distance barely visible only accented, but very clear. Emptiness, which are unable to fill the words or deeds. The sisters apparently linked together, and so far apart ...
Danish writer unconventional touches themes of existential closure of the internal world, trying to ask questions about this, what isolation can lead. Jane not only emotionally is closed. She closed on the life experiences, not studying, satisfied with her temporary job ... and the freedom that it gives. Complicated relationship with his mother and sister give only a partial answer to the question, what bothers Jane. Helle Hellle creates a reflective book about covering the roads that lead nowhere. Bitter are prose and thought-provoking. Difficult to determine. It is difficult to find the truth between the lines, which in the narrative of this book cuts with surgical precision.
Publisher word image / territories, 2010
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