Peter Høeg

Literature
Movies
Reviews
SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW
Wintry Skies, Loneliness, and a Little Boy’s Mysterious Death How many words for “snow” do you know? In most languages, there is only one … or maybe a few, but not many different ones. But the Inuit language knows countless words for snow – different expressions based on its consistency, its aggregate state, on whether […]
Read More
Literature
Reviews
Peter Høeg: Tales of the Night
Bridges Built out of Yearning “The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.” Thus, the protagonist of this short story collection’s last entry, Reflection of a Young Man in Balance, sums up what […]
Read More