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Madsen's writing style and philosophy have placed him amongst the most distinguished and widely read authors in
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Madsen would later define these novels as "anti-art". The change to the next phase of his work was, according to him, a shift from "anti-art" to "anti-anti-art", which accepted the result of the first phase: "that reality can not be described", but that one may attempt to build a meaningful
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