Jens Peter Jacobsen

• Jul-2006
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Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women -- including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend -- his se...

• Jun-2014
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Mogens and Other Stories by Jens Peter Jacobsen. Translated from the Danish By Anna Grabow. 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...

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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 ten...

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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. Jaco...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...