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Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery
While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. His novels Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne as well as his stories and poems were widely admired by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce.
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen’s life, work, and death: his passionate interest in the natural sciences, his complicated and nuanced attitude to his own atheism, and his painful descent toward an early death. Carefully researched and sympathetically imagined, this is an evocative portrait of one of the most influential and gifted writers of the nineteenth century.
While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. His novels Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne as well as his stories and poems were widely admired by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce.
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen’s life, work, and death: his passionate interest in the natural sciences, his complicated and nuanced attitude to his own atheism, and his painful descent toward an early death. Carefully researched and sympathetically imagined, this is an evocative portrait of one of the most influential and gifted writers of the nineteenth century.
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À propos de l'auteur
Born in Copenhagen and educated in England and America, Morten Høi Jensen has contributed to numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and the New Republic.
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Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. The very first English-language biography of Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847?1885), a towering yet frequently overlooked figure of late 19th-century Scandinavian literature. Despite producing an extraordinarily small body of work?only two novels, seven short stories, and one slim volume of poetry?Jacobsen is remembered as one of the most stylistically influential European writers of the late 19th century. In the early 1870s, Jacobsen became fascinated by the revolutionary work of Charles Darwin. Recognizing that evolutionary theory was virtually unknown in Scandinavia, he single-handedly translated On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man into Danish. This work fundamentally altered his outlook, steering him toward a scientifically motivated atheism that became the central theme of his later fiction. N° de réf. du vendeur SKU2020028903
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