Lucky Per: Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg Contributor(s): Pontoppidan, Henrik (Author), Lebowitz, Naomi (Translator), Hallberg, Garth Risk (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1101908092 ISBN-13: 9781101908099 Publisher: Everyman's Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2019 Click for more in this series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: 839.813 |
LCCN: 2018053817 |
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" L (1.35 lbs) 664 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2019 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably the great Danish novel-- but is only newly available in English. Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast . . . and capture and bind it. Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of luck to happiness (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life. |
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