All This Could Be Yours

It’s winter. Barbara travels across the country with her newborn to be with her mother and sister in the days leading up to her father’s heart surgery. The operation goes smoothly, but when he opens his eyes, his gaze is empty and devoid of recognition; it’s like looking into the eyes of someone robbed of a soul. For the next week, the doctors try to wake him up from the anesthesia. Each day, the same thing happens. We don’t know why, the doctors say, but some people never really wake up.

Staying in her childhood home with her baby and faced with the possible loss of her father, Barbara begins to see her family and their history in a new light. All This Could Be Yours is a moving portrait of a family across two generations, about mothers and sisters, and the ideals and dreams we inherit.

“Intoxicatingly beautiful…Impressive in every aspect…The author’s sixth novel is a dramatic and stylistic tour de force… Klougart’s brilliantly attentive prose reaches new heights.” 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Jyllands-Posten

“No one writes with such precise poetic language as Klougart, so that on the one hand one counts oneself lucky for being a feeling human on this earth while on the other hand, one is left quivering, ripped open to the experience of the world’s vulnerability, the perishability of existence and the fragility of connecting threads.” ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ Politiken

“A poetic, deep, insightful and complex novel.” Kristeligt Dagblad

“In contemporary Danish literature, is there anyone who writes as beautifully as this?” Erik Skyum-Nielsen, Information

“A special combination of innovative symbolism and intense sensitivity to nature has made her one of the greatest writers of her generation. Yet it’s as if Klougart is now refining her touch. What used to seem like individual scenes are linked together in a novel that at times recalls a generational novel, motherhood literature, critique of capitalism, autofiction and nature poetry. Perhaps it sounds quite typical of these times, but All This Could Be Yours is so stylishly executed that it does not need labels. It is simply great literature. (…) One of the best things about All This Could Be Yours is the way one can observe the surroundings settling into Barbara, as if she were a human landscape.” Information

“In her new magnificent mess of a novel, Klougart shifts between indulging in the idyll of childhood and breaking down its illusions…It’s powerful stuff! ” Weekendavisen

“Dizzyingly beautiful…All This Could Be Yours does what all great art endeavors: Shows us the world illuminated, and through this light, lets us sense all that we cannot see… Just as autumn makes me long for spring, Klougart’s prose makes me long for her childhood on Mols in a bubbling melancholic way. A greater gift can hardly exists.” POV Intermational

After Nature

“In times of crisis, such as the one we live in today, the dream often arises that art and literature will come to our rescue… Art must take a stand, embody a form of ethics, “mean something”, and ultimately work, that is, create change in the concrete world.”

After Nature seeks an aesthetic vision for the experience of art and literature. Through the reading of a number of artworks from the Glyptotek’s collection, Josefine Klougart draws lines of connection between art and literature and reflects on the cognition of aesthetics.

After nature discusses how art and literature can be political, what demands can actually be placed on it. The book gives a unique insight into the thoughts behind the author’s own books, and it is an important contribution to the discussion about the role of art in society today and in the future. It is, among other things, a vision of an aesthetic and social revolution.

“With thought connections and a language ceaselessly drawing our bodies, life and awareness of death into the reading of these artistic depictions of nature, Josefine Klougart takes a firm grip on us.” ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ Politiken

“With her words, Josefine Klougart gives us both nature and the nature of art back.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kristeligt Dagblad

“Josefine Klougart has created an exhibition on people’s intimate and twisted relationship to nature which couldn’t be timed any better.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weekendavisen

“An immensely clever and beautiful essay, the importance of which is far greater than the exhibition itself.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jyllands-Posten

“[Klougart] revives the forgotten tradition of the artist as philosopher – and the result holds rare beauty.” Information