A Fortunate Man - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henrik Pontoppidan, Paul Larkin (Translator), Flemming Behrendt (Afterword by)Publish date:2025-06-10Pages:880
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379272ISBN-10:1681379279UPC:9781681379272Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Religious, ClassicsBook Topic:DenmarkWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC01FGZW1V
A Fortunate Man
A Nobel Prize-winner's unforgettable novel about a man who sheds the stifling country life of his childhood for the excitement of Copenhagen. This masterpiece of Danish literature, admired by the likes of Georg Lukács and Ernst Bloch, is now available in a new English translation.
A Fortunate Man tells the story of Per Sidenius, a Lutheran pastor's son who revolts against his family and flees the...
A Fortunate Man tells the story of Per Sidenius, a Lutheran pastor's son who revolts against his family and flees the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379272ISBN-10:1681379279UPC:9781681379272Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Religious, ClassicsBook Topic:DenmarkWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC01FGZW1V
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) was one of Denmark's great realist writers, a member of the Modern Breakthrough movement whose works are often compared to those of Honor? de Balzac and ?mile Zola. The son of a clergyman, he studied engineering in Copenhagen but then left to become a teacher and writer. For his numerous novels and short stories, he won the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature. Paul...
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