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Niels Lyhne
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780809533565
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Jan 10 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
Niels Lyhne is a poignant and introspective novel by Jens Peter Jacobsen, chronicling the life of a young dreamer caught between aspiration and reality. Through poetic prose and deep philosophical inquiry, Jacobsen explores themes of love, loss, and existential yearning. This classic of Danish literature offers a timeless meditation on the struggles of identity and the human condition.
This highly influential late-19th century Danish novel portrays the melancholy life of an idealistic young poet. --Publishers Weekly Niels Lyhne recounts the life of its eponymous hero, a poet, emphasizing the influence of experience on psychological development and examining philosophical issues: the nature of reality, atheism, creativity and love. It is a dense narrative, striking at times in its richness of physical detail...--Independent Publisher
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