Within the realm of modern Danish literature, no author has for a longer time or more tenaciously held onto the position of short fiction specialist, in the widest definition of the term, than did Peter Seeberg. Within his novels, Seeberg employed a variety of pseudorealistic documents, which distance his works from the structure of ordinary novels, at the same time linking them to the nonfiction documents most people deal with in the real world. On the appearance of a new book in 1997, literary critic Lars Bukdahl exulted that "Peter Seeberg både er vores mest radikale avantgardist og vores fremmeste realist, side om side" (Peter Seeberg is our most radical avant-gardist and our most outstanding realist, at the same time). The latest in a venerable line of short-story masters from the Jutland peninsula that includes Steen Steensen Blicher, Johannes V. Jensen, and Henrik Pontoppidan, Seeberg shares their...