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The Diary of a Parish Clerk and Other Stories
The nineteenth-century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alongside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Maupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the nineteenth century. Although his subject matter is deeply and truly that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storytellers art.
- GenresDanishShort Stories
244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1824
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Steen Steensen Blicher
217 books12 followersSteen Steensen Blicher (11. oktober 1782 i faderens præstegård i Vium – 26. marts 1848) var en dansk præst og forfatter, søn af Niels Gudme Blicher. Han tog embedseksamen fra pastoralseminariet i 1809. Blicher virkede som præst i Thorning og i Spentrup, men er bedst kendt for sine digte, noveller og oversættelser af internationalt kendte værker.
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther[citation needed].
He grew up in close contact to nature and peasant life in the moor areas of Jutland. After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.
As a clergyman he is said to have been less than inspired. His main interests were hunting and writing. In 1842 he was accused of alcoholism and abandoned from a Cooperation of Danish writers. Many struggles with his superiors the following years led to his dismissal shortly before his death.
He had ten children, (seven sons and three daughters), with his wife Ernestine Juliane Berg whom he married on 11 June 1810.
Blicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish]. From the 1820s until his death he wrote several tales that were published in local periodicals (mostly dealing with his home region), as well as historical and amateur scientific sketches. Much of this work is entertainment but as many as twenty or thirty pieces have been called masterpieces.
In these works he describes human fate in his home region in Jutland, He is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour.
He is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator — theme in literature.
(from Wikipedia)
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther[citation needed].
He grew up in close contact to nature and peasant life in the moor areas of Jutland. After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.
As a clergyman he is said to have been less than inspired. His main interests were hunting and writing. In 1842 he was accused of alcoholism and abandoned from a Cooperation of Danish writers. Many struggles with his superiors the following years led to his dismissal shortly before his death.
He had ten children, (seven sons and three daughters), with his wife Ernestine Juliane Berg whom he married on 11 June 1810.
Blicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish]. From the 1820s until his death he wrote several tales that were published in local periodicals (mostly dealing with his home region), as well as historical and amateur scientific sketches. Much of this work is entertainment but as many as twenty or thirty pieces have been called masterpieces.
In these works he describes human fate in his home region in Jutland, He is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour.
He is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator — theme in literature.
(from Wikipedia)
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February 21, 2026
Jeg læser gerne novellen En landsbydegns dagbog hvert år. Det er en fantastisk historie om bristede forhåbninger som bliver ved med at give mig billeder på nethinden. Læs den!
November 30, 2024
1782-1848 yıllarında yaşamış olan Steensen, Danimarka edebiyatında öykücülüğün öncüsü olarak biliniyormuş. İngilizce’ye çevrilen bu derlemedeki öykülerün çoğu ilginç ve keyifle okunuyor, özellikle kitaba adını veren ve günce formatında yazılan uzun öykü. Kitabın genel olarak berrak bir anlatımı var. 19. yüzyıl Danimarka kırsalından toplum ve insan manzaraları içermesiyle, psikolojik boyutlarıyla da dikkate değer.
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