A difficult death : the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Wood, James, writer of foreword
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017].
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xxxi, 234 pages ; 22 cm
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
839.8136 JACOBS 2017
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017].
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includes bibliographical references and index.
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Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. His novels Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne as well as his stories and poems were widely admired by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce. Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsens life, work, and death: his passionate interest in the natural sciences, his complicated and nuanced attitude to his own atheism, and his painful descent toward an early death. Carefully researched and sympathetically imagined, this is an evocative portrait of one of the most influential and gifted writers of the nineteenth century.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jensen, M. H., & Wood, J. (2017). A difficult death: the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen . Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jensen, Morten Høi and James, Wood. 2017. A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen. Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jensen, Morten Høi and James, Wood. A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen Yale University Press, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jensen, Morten Høi,, and James Wood. A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen Yale University Press, 2017.

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