Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet torn between romanticism and realism faith and reason Through his relationships with six womenincluding his young widowed aunt a seductive free spirit and his passionate cousin who marries his friendhis search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment One of Danish literatures greatest novels with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet Jacobsens masterpiece has at its center a young man who faces the anguish of the human condition but cannot find comfort in the Christian faith Tiina Nunnallys awardwinning translation offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke Ibsen Mann and Hesse