商品簡介
An award-winning translation of the influential Danish master
Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six womenA-including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friendA-his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literatureA's greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet, JacobsenA's masterpiece has at its center a young man who faces the anguish of the human condition but cannot find comfort in the Christian faith. Tiina NunnallyA's award-winning translation offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke, Ibsen, Mann, and Hesse.
作者簡介
Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885) made his literary debut with the novella Mogens in 1872. Diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis two years later, he completed several more short stories and two novels.
