Tom Kristensen
Ole Jastrau is a former radical writer now fat with bourgeois ambition writing literary reviews for a Danish newspaper in the 1930s.
He derails his staid and normal life with a glorious and exuberant decline into alcohol-induced madness.
So vividly written I almost gave up drinking.
Recommendation: Buy
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