Henrik Pontoppidan

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Lucky Per: Introduction by Garth Risk HallbergHardcover, 16 April 2019

Lucky Per: Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg
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Part of Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Print Length
664 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Date Published
16 Apr 2019
ISBN-10
1101908092
ISBN-13
9781101908099

Description

A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably the great Danish novel-- but is only newly available in English.

Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast . . . and capture and bind it. Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of luck to happiness (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life.

Product Details

Author:
Henrik Pontoppidan
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
DE
Date Published:
16 April 2019
Dimensions:
20.57 x 13.21 x 3.81 cm
ISBN-10:
1101908092
ISBN-13:
9781101908099
Language:
English
Pages:
664
Weight:
612.35 gm

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