Jens Peter Jacobsen: 7 books

As one of the great authors of the Danish language, Jens Peter Jacobsen body of work is small, including just two novels, seven short stories, and a volume of poetry. Considered his masterpiece, "Niels Lyhne" follows the struggles of an aspiring poet. Torn between a childishly idealized vision of the...

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 Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North...

Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885 ) was a famous Danish novelist and poet. Niels Lyhne is Jacobsens second novel, and the story focuses on an atheist and the events that happen to him. This edition includes a Table of Contents for easier navigation.

'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...

“Un ricamo in perle”: così definì lo stesso Jacobsen il suo Marie Grubbe, la storia vera di una nobildonna danese del diciassettesimo secolo che sfidò la società del tempo inseguendo il desiderio di amare e di essere amata, di vivere a pieno e senza restrizioni. La potente prosa di Jacobsen,...

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 search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment....