Deliver Us from Love

By Suzanne Brøgger and Suzanne Brogger

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070433187X
• ISBN13: 9780704331877
• Release Date: March 1978
• Publisher: Quartet Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Breezily cosmopolitan

I award this book 5 stars because it is a great, thought-provoking read, it is out of print and shouldn't be, and more of this woman's books need to be translated because I am simply not going to learn Danish just so I can read them!_Deliver Us From Love_ was the first book published by Suzanne Broegger (that's the Anglicization of Brogger with the slash through the "o"), a Danish journalist and feminist. I know she has published others in her native language -- at least one a detective novel. A Danish AFS exchange student told me the author was regarded by Danes-on-the-street as a racy eccentric; the only other place I've heard of her was in Brenda Venus's weird book about her affair of the mind with aged Henry Miller, in which Brogger is shown paying a respectful visit to the old codger.I assume the chapters of this book were originally magazine and newspaper pieces. Most of them construct elegant, logical, even erudite arguments that lead to outrageous conclusions; to wit, that monogamy, the family, and children should be abolished; and that males should be barred from higher education, at least for a while. All this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course, but Brogger raises interesting points along the way.There is also a hair-raising discussion of rape, and an elegiac description of a visit to the public baths in pre-revolutionary Iran (shades of Anais Nin!).This book and I go back a ways. I first stumbled on it around 1978 in the bowels of Harvard's Pusey library. (The women's issues, love and sex collections were held underground -- ponder THAT for symbolism.) Five years later I seriously pondered stealing one of the Boston Public Library's three copies, which were obviously not doing a brisk business of circulating, but thankfully discovered a used copy in the Boston Book Annexe near Fenway Park. I wrote Ms. Brogger a fan letter in 1983 care of her Danish publisher and received a gracious reply in English.Brogger rocks!