Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Fiction, Classics, Literary - Hardcover

Jacobsen, Jens Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159818346X ISBN 13: 9781598183467

Publisher: Aegypan, 2006

Synopsis

According to JOHAN DE MYLIUS of the Danish Royal Library, Jens Peter Jacobsen and particularly his novel Niels Lyhne, a naturalist work, was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough'. A style of Realism native to Scandinavia.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 novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style.

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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

Synopsis:

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 159818346X
• ISBN 13: 9781598183467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152