The world's Pontoppidan and his Lykke Per.

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Lebowitz, Naomi | Copyright information

FOR LACK of a translation, (1) one of the greatest novels of European literature from the end of the nineteenth century has remained unread by the English-speaking world, its author virtually unknown. Yet Henrik Pontoppidan's Lykke Per (1898-1904; Lucky Per), early rendered into German, was praised by Thomas Mann, Georg Lukacs, and Ernst Bloch as a cosmopolitan masterpiece of epochal sweep and a profound social, psychological, and metaphysical anatomy of the modernist transition. I...

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