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Niels Lyhne (Hardcover)
Jens Peter Jacobsen; Translated by Hanna Astrup Larsen
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According to JOHAN DE MYLIUS of the Danish Royal Library, Jens
Peter Jacobsen was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern
breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's
immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his
generation.' With the novel "Niels Lyhne" (1880) he voiced the
disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's
dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories
Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of
tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on
account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost
lyrical style."
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a
new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of
Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main
Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the
deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the
North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and
Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a
conflict joined between the old and the new, both going to
extremes, in which nearly every one had a share. How many of the
works of that period are already out-worn, and how old-fashioned
the theories that were then so violently defended and attacked Too
much logic, too much contention for its own sake, one might say,
and too little art. This was the period when Jens Peter Jacobsen
began to write, but he stood aside from the conflict, content to be
merely artist, a creator of beauty and a seeker after truth, eager
to bring into the realm of literature "the eternal laws of nature,
its glories, its riddles, its miracles," as he once put it. That is
why his work has retained its living colors until to-day, without
the least trace of fading.
Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) described himself as a literary
artist eager to bring into literature "the eternal laws of nature,
its glories, its riddles, its miracles," A realist writer,
significanty ahead of his time, Jacobsen dealt candidly with life
as it is lived, with genuine human emotion as it is experienced,
and often explored the darker aspects of existence which the more
"polite" writers of his time avoided. He began his career as a
scientist, translating the works of Charles Darwin into Danish, but
turned to literature and became one of the most extraordinary
voices in 19th century Scandanavian literature.
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Mogens and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Jens Peter Jacobsen; Translated by Anna Grabow; Introduction by O.F. Theis
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R714
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According to JOHAN DE MYLIUS of the Danish Royal Library, Jens
Peter Jacobsen was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern
breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's
immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his
generation.' Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen
published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis,"
both of his novels "are unique in an age of realism on account of
their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style.
Jacobsen's late Romantic or early Symbolist poetry was not
published in book form until after his death."
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
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