The Brummstein

This little novella took me quite by surprise. Peter Adolphsen has created characters who are archetypal, original and utterly believable. I enjoyed the gorgeously geographic description of how subterranean caves are formed. I loved the cyclical nature of the story, which goes full circle over the c......more

At blive tæt knyttet til en Peter Adolphsen-karakter er ligesom kun at elske malingen, så længe den ikke er tørret endnu. Adolphsen går ganske vist altid den modsatte vej og gør tørre karakterer vådere. Vådere i forstanden: udsmattede og bloddryppende. De har med andre ord en meget kort levetid. I mod......more

Review published at Three Percent: [URL not allowed] *** By examining the minute connections, unlikely coincidences, and painstaking natural processes that give shape to the daily world, the work of Danish author Peter Adolphsen encapsulates—both in form and content—Blake’s imag......more

Hardly even a novella, The Brummstein is very short, just 78 pages. I loved it, the writing had a softness, a gentle touch which was very beguiling, the story - of a strange geological specimen that passes from hand to hand - was utterly compelling and I wished with all my heart there had been more......more

Peter Adolphsen's Brummstein is a peculiar little novella; the story of a weird, vibrating stone that's chipped off an ancient rock at the bottom of a Swiss cave in 1908, and its travels from hand to hand throughout the 20th century in Germany. It should be a drily humorous tall tale in the classic......more