Name: mogens and other stories
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Author: Jens Peter Jacobsen
ISBN: 9781598183511

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Physical Book

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Publisher

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

108

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.7 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN

1598183516

ISBN13

9781598183511

Synopsis "mogens and other stories"

Jacobsen's literary debut. 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." Jacobsen's late Romantic or early Symbolist poetry was not published in book form until after his death.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

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Jens Peter Jacobsen (Thisted, Jutland, 1847-1885) is one of the most celebrated writers in Danish literature. He was educated in the positivist school of the Brandes brothers and translated and disseminated Darwin's work. A botanist, poet, and novelist, he is best known for his work Niels Lyhne (written in 1880), the Arabesk and Gurresange—set to music in 1911 under the title Gurrelieder by Arnold Schönberg—and the novel Fru Maria Grubbe (1876). He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight. The impressionist chromaticism of his pages and the lyricism of his descriptions have earned the admiration of great German novelists of the 20th century, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Stefan.

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