“At blinke for Kniven”


 Reading Jensen’s The Fall of the King, this essay pursues idea that novel’s descriptions hate, hate speech and idiosyncrasies not only serve as insights into troubled subjectivities dehumanizing social logics but they are crucial elements particular aesthetic practices have helped turn novel a key document in Danish literary history. Drawing on recent theoretical work relationships between hate-speech literature, article argues owes much its shocking undecidable qualities, ability to make reader flinch at knife, engagement with rhetoric phenomenology hate.