Mogens and Other Stories - Softcover

Jacobsen, J P; Jacobsen, Jens Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605976199 ISBN 13: 9781605976198

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

...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 Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a conflict joined between the old and the new, both going to extremes, in which nearly every one had a share. How many of the works of that period are already out-worn, and how old-fashioned the theories that were then so violently defended and attacked! Too much logic, too much contention for its own sake, one might say, and too little art...

About this title

About the Author:

Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" (pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen"). He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature. According to JOHAN DE MYLIUS of the Danish Royal Library, Jens Peter Jacobsen was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' --Wikipedia

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Danish

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605976199
• ISBN 13: 9781605976198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80