Aase's DeathAase Berg (trans. Johannes Gransson) One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aases Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if its parodic, its darkly parodic. A defiantly dark laughter animates the book. Its alsolike most of her writinga slangy, linguistically playful book. Berg has argued that at the heart of language is a kind of happy babbling for the sake of babbling. But in

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who writes of Killian’s 'fabulous

Her life and work become more than a sound bite

And while I’m here

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abstracted pleasures where time is tactile yet immeasurable

A doubt hovers over what we are reading

Drawing from four volumes spanning Otta’s career

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’ – Kate Briggs

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