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Mogens and Other Stories
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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...more
Hardcover, 112 pages
Published
October 12th 2005
by 1st World Library
(first published 1882)
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There are certain methods in fiction that seem not to exist anymore, and Jens Peter Jacobsen practiced them. The stories here are neither romantic, nor modern, nor naturalist, but occupy some deeply strange middle space, evading genre and standing strangely timeless. I know Thomas Mann was deeply influenced by these stories... consider "The Plague in Bergamo." So there's this desolate landscape and people picking through the rubble, driven to madness. It's Jose Saramago weirdly tra...more
One of the most exquisite books I've ever read. The passion in this book is intense, the imagery is golden and rapt with sensitivity and a remarkable kind of madness which I find to be very endearing. Mogens and Other Stories
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Highly recommended at some learned period of my life. I didn't like it enough to finish it, though I am sure it is a masterpiece.
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Jacobsen was born in Thisted in Jutland, the eldest of the five children of a prosperous merchant. He went to school in Copenhagen and was a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1868. As a boy, he showed a remarkable talent for science, in particular botany. In 1870, although he was already secretly writing poetry, Jacobsen adopted botany as a profession. He was sent by a scientific body in ...more
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