About the book: 1983 / The collection introduces the work of outstanding representatives of modern Danish prose. V. Heinesen, one of the luminaries of national literature of the 20th century, constructs his work, which gives the collection its name, as the memoirs of a wise man about his childhood years. F. Saborg, in grotesque and satirical tones, depicts the discord between the hero and the bourgeois society around him. The story by M. Christensen talks about the disorder and tragic hopelessness of human existence in the conditions of capitalist reality.