In Creme Fraiche: En Føljeton (Crème Frâiche: A Feuilleton, 1978) Danish novelist and essayist Suzanne Brøgger tells of a Chinese potter who throws himself into the kiln to supply more oxygen to the glaze on a bowl. Just like the Chinese potter, Brøgger throws her whole being into her work in order to bring life and literature as close together as possible. The desire to live as she writes and write as she lives means that Brøgger writes from an intensely personal vantage point. She mixes autobiography, philosophical reflection, fiction, and documentation into a textual synthesis that is often difficult to categorize.

Brøgger's works are constantly developing, as her writing process matures and old selves and old language are cast off. Each text thus becomes an examination of the validity of previous texts, part of...