num_pages: 146
description: According to Johan de Mylius of the Danish Royal Library, Jens Peter Jacobsen and particularly his novel Niels Lyhne, a naturalist work, was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style."
language: English
title: Niels Lyhne
titlecomplete: Niels Lyhne
characters: Erik Refstrup, Gerda Skinnerup, Niels Lyhne, Bartholine Lyhne, Edele Lyhne, Fru Boye, Frithiof Petersen, Herr Bigum, Fennimore Claudi
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Danish, 19th Century, European Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Denmark, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 1993
places: Copenhagen, Denmark
publisher: Alan Rodgers Books