Name: marie grubbe
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Author: Jens Peter Jacobsen
ISBN: 9781598183535

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Translated by

Hanna Astrup Larsen

Publisher

Aegypan

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781598183535

Synopsis "marie grubbe"

Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' Jacobsen's breakthrough came already in 1876 with the historical and psychological novel Fru Marie Grubbe," entitled Marie Grubbe in English, "which for the first time in Danish literature presented a profound portrayal of a woman as a creature of instinct and desire and as a being searching for her own identity. The book's defiant individualism asserting human values as opposed to society's judgment was also a sign of modernity."

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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