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Niels Lyhne

by Jens Peter Jacobsen · 1880

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Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style."

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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1880s1880sMore like thisLess of thisScandinaviaScandinaviaMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 152 pages
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