The exception by christian jungersen5/31/2023 ![]() The interest turns on the way such people treat the diseased, and how neuroscience transforms, or corrodes, sociability.įormally, The Exception and You Disappear share an odd feature: non-fiction ‘articles’ (written by Jungersen) are dropped into the story at crucial moments. But rather than narrate the novel from the perspective of someone affected by a neurological abnormality, in the manner of, say, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Jungersen makes a ‘normal’ person the narrative centre. (His first novel, Krat, or ‘Thicket’, remains untranslated.) You Disappear is about the contemporary obsession with the supposed capacity of neuroscience to explain every aspect of our emotional and intellectual lives. ![]() His third and most recent novel, You Disappear, came out in Denmark in 2010. Jungersen’s novel was set in the made-up Danish Centre for Information on Genocide (DCIG), where the relations between the office workers appear to mirror the everyday blindnesses and cruelties that supposedly led to the mass slaughters of the 20th century. ![]() His second novel, T he Exception, came out in Denmark in 2004, when liberal debates about the justness of humanitarian intervention were at their height. ![]() T he Danish novelist Christian Jungersen writes topical novels with untopical frames, which appear to be of the moment though they look at the news askance. ![]()
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