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Synopsis
Interiors from the Seventeenth Century
'One of the best books I've ever read.' --Delius
'Jacobsen has made a more profound impression on me emotionally than anything else I’ve read in recent years.' --Sigmund Freud
' In Jacobsen we have the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly developed realism.' --Hermann Hesse
“Wonderful...portraying a true human being but not quite as if she were living on the next floor. It must be said at once that Jens Peter Jacobsen had an admirable idea of the uses of his rich material. It was his object to weave it into something much more decorative than an ordinary novel can afford to be, something at the same time quite different from the sentimental conventionality of looking patronizingly backward. In this his success may be acknowledged, especially in so capable a translation. What he has created is, in one aspect, a tapestry of the Danish seventeenth century, with the marked events of the epoch picked out in definite figures, and the background peculiarly finished and glowing...The story has the growth and under-growth of a fine tapestry, its flatness and its decorum, its drama cleverly disjointed at the sideboard and brought forward in treasurable detail...There is in this tale a very haunting beauty and a personality that can scarcely be forgotten.” -New Republic, 1918
George Brandes calls this book the greatest tour de force in Danish literature. It is a rattling historical romance; the story of a woman who loved for the sake of having her love returned. A grim realistic biographical novel. It gives an interesting picture of Denmark of the latter seventeenth century, and of the heroine who casts her fortunes first with a natural son of the king and then with a peasant. This is the first fruit in Danish fiction, of the scientific spirit and one of the earliest manifestations of the modern ideas introduced in Scandinavian letters by Georg Brandes.
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About the Author
Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in Denmark in 1847. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen and he translated Darwin's On The Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man into Danish. He published in 1872 his first work, the short story Mogens. Two years later while traveling in Italy, he was diagnosed with TB. He wrote two novels Marie Grubbe (1876) and Niels Lyhne (1880) as well as some poems and short stories, before dying in 1885 at the age of 38.
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Text: English, Danish (translation)
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1489500960
- ISBN 13 9781489500960
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages296
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