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FICTION Naja Marie Aidt. Bavian Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 2006. 218 pages 199 kr. ISBN 87-02-04662-8
NAJA MARIE AIDT'S recent collection of short stories Bavian (Baboon) is characterized by tackling somewhat uneasy issues such as adultery, divorce, violence, disease, sexuality, and physical attraction. Notice, however, that this interest in repression, pent-up feelings, affection, aggression, and fear is presented without any form of sentimentality, which makes the volume quite remarkable.
Each one of the fifteen stories is cleverly composed. Many of the texts take their point of departure in an idyllic landscape description or a more or less quotidian situation, without anything spectacular happening, such as an average family's weekend trip, a couple shopping in a supermarket, or a woman sitting in...