Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature -
Scandinavia and Iceland, language: English, abstract: The purpose of
this research paper is to conduct a textual analysis of this novel, as a
research method on the bedrock of Marxist literary hermeneutics in an
innovative and new way, tracing the all-round development of Pelle's
personality who succeeded to organise his fellow-proletarians on the
platform of the Corporative movement, trade union and socialist
revolutionary movement. He founded the garden-city for the betterment of
his fellow-proletarian comrades. Martin Andersen Nexo was the most
eminent Danish Marxist proletarian fiction writer of the twentieth
century. He came from the working-class family background and wrote
short stories, novels and essays about the plights and sufferings of the
proletariat class. His novel "Pelle, the Conqueror" (1906) is one of the
greatest proletariat novels in world literature. Pelle, the protagonist
of the novel emerged as the self-realised and class-conscious
proletarian leader from the obscurity, drudgery and poverty of his rural
peasant and shepherd background. He was a common labouring lad, who
served as a herd, shoemaker's apprentice and qualified shoemaker. The
novel enjoyed enormous success and popularity that conquered the hearts
of the proletarians and peasants of the world. The novel is also
neglected in academia, criticism, literature and the world of research.
