Niels Lyhne

by Jens Peter Jacobsen

Other authorsTiina Nunnally (Translator)
Hardcover, 1880

Status

Available

Call number

839.8136

Publication

Seattle: Fjord Press, 1990

Description

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. One of Danish literature's greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet, Jacobsen's masterpiece has at its center a young man who faces the anguish of the human condition but cannot find comfort in the Christian faith. Tiina Nunnally's award-winning translation offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke, Ibsen, Mann, and Hesse.

User reviews

LibraryThing member pauliensijbers
Rilke was right! J.P. Jacobsen is the greatest of all!
LibraryThing member SkjaldOfBorea
Classic novel on the challenge for a still constrained Nordic culture in absorbing Europe’s expansive ideals.

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Language

Original language

Danish

Original publication date

1880
2006-06-26
1. ed. It. 1995

Physical description

212 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

0940242303 / 9780940242302
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