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...GOOD LIGHT (272 pp.)-Karl Bjarnhof-Knopf...
...STARS GROW PALE, by Karl Bjarnhof. Written by a Danish author and musician, who is himself blind, Bjarnhof's fictional memoir of a boy gradually losing his sight is steadily touching, not once sentimental. In it, blindness leads to selfdiscovery, and when music fills the boy's dark world, it is as if he had won a major victory...
...STARS GROW PALE (310 pp.)-Karl Bjarnhof-Knopf...
...test of a writer is whether he can find words for the things that are too terrible for words. Denmark's Karl Bjarnhof, 60, passes the test brilliantly in The Stars Grow Pale, the sensitive story of a boy slowly going blind. In Author Bjarnhof's hands, a theme that might have been merely harrowing or touching takes on the larger complexities of a boy's awakening sensibilities in a small provincial town amid a home life both flintily pious and grindingly poor. What brands the young hero's soul is not the iron of personal...
What is perhaps most remarkable about Stars is that it is a fictionalized memoir from an author who is himself blind. Between the ages of 17 and 19, Novelist Bjarnhof lost his sight, subsequently toured as a concert cellist and became one of Denmark's leading men of letters. Active as an essayist, newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero...