A difficult death
Subtitle: the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
By: Morten Høi Jensen ; foreword by James Wood
Contributors: Wood, James, writer of foreword
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780300218930
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Danish Authors; Biography
Other titles: Life and work of of Jens Peter Jacobsen
Description: While largely unknown today, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century. 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 Jacobsen's life, work, and death.--Adapted from book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.