Niels Lyhne - Hardcover

Jacobsen, Jens Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809533561 ISBN 13: 9780809533565

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2022

Synopsis

"This highly influential late-19th century Danish novel portrays the melancholy life of an idealistic young poet." --Publishers Weekly "Niels Lyhne recounts the life of its eponymous hero, a poet, emphasizing the influence of experience on psychological development and examining philosophical issues: the nature of reality, atheism, creativity and love. It is a dense narrative, striking at times in its richness of physical detail . . .--Independent Publisher

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Review:

Jacobsen has made a more profound impression on my heart than any other reading in recent years. (Sigmund Freud)

"It's a great book. . . . I would highly recommend it."
--John Williams, The New York Times Book Review podcast

About the Author:

Jens Peter Jacobsen 1847–85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration in 17th-century Denmark. Jacobsen's other works include Nels Lyhne (1880, tr. 1919), a semiautobiographical work about a dreamer unable to cope with the realities of his life, several novellas, and a volume of poems. His nation's first naturalist novelist, Jacobsen created a curt prose that had great influence on naturalistic style, both in Denmark and abroad. He translated Darwin's Origin of Species and Descent of Man into Danish.

Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. Her translation for Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, won the Lewis Galantiere Prize, given to the American Translators Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0809533561
• ISBN 13: 9780809533565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159