Niels Lyhne

Name: Niels Lyhne
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ISBN: 9780143039815

ISBN-10: 0143039814

ISBN-13: 9780143039815

Edition: 60th 2006 (Anniversary)

Authors: Jens Peter Jacobsen, Tiina Nunnally, Eric Johannesson, Jens Peter Jacobsen

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An award-winning translation of the influential Danish master Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six womenincluding his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friendhis search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literatures greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet, Jacobsens 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 Nunnallys award-winning translation offers readers a chance to…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Edition: 60th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.76" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Jens Peter Jacobsen(18471885) made his literary debut with the novella Mogensin 1872. Diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis two years later, he completed several more short stories and two novels.Tiina Nunnallyis the award-winning translator of numerous works of Scandinavian literature, including Kristin Lavransdatter(winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize).