Brother Jacob - Hardcover
A Denmark best-seller features a real-life human experience of God in history as Brother Jacob flees to Mexico in search of his own Utopia, establishes hospitals, and champions the rights of the Amerindians before his faith is put to a final test.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Danish
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Original Language: Danish
With this historical novel, a bestseller in his native country, Danish writer Stangerup completes a trilogy grounded in the "stages on life's way"--aesthetic, ethical, and religious--identified by Kierkegaard. His protagonist--an actual figure, meticulously fictionalized--is a brother of King Christian II of Denmark who becomes a Franciscan friar at the time of the Lutheran Reformation. Dextrously moving from hagiography to as-told-to autobiography, Stangerup chronicles Jacob's search for a truly religious Christianity. After joining the Franciscan order, Jacob is educated in Paris, which is embroiled in theological controversy; later the Franciscans are expelled from newly Lutheran Denmark, and Jacob and his brothers travel to Spain, which is rife with anti-Semitism and overrun with rule-bound monasteries. Inspired by Erasmus's Christian humanism and Thomas More's Utopia , Jacob sets out for New Spain, where he founds churches and monasteries, campaigns for the natives' right to be ordained as priests and is revered as a saint upon his death. Stangerup's brilliance is manifest in every line of his vigorously translated prose, as is his copious research. But while Brother Jacob struggles to escape his willful personality, in which "everything is turned into 'I' and 'I' and 'I,' " that personality never fully emerges from the crowds of arcane facts that surround it. In his fidelity to history, Stangerup has produced a work that demands from the reader the patience of a saint.
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- PublisherMarion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0714529486
- ISBN 13 9780714529486
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages280
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