by Carsten Jensen · Gyldendal · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788773572146
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«Jeg Har Set Verden Begynde» is the travel essay by Carsten Jensen, published by Gyldendal in 2001 (558 pages, in Danish).
Carsten Jensen recounts his train journey from Denmark towards the East and his passage through China, Cambodia and Vietnam at the end of the 20th century. Between chronicles, history and portraits of people and places, he reflects on the traces of colonialism and war, as well as on the transformation of these societies.
The travel essay originally appeared in 1996 and won the De Gyldne Laurbær prize; the Danish edition is from 2001.
For readers interested in travel literature, the recent history of Asia and journalistic essay.
Carsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His books, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel Vi, de druknede, a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal.
