Book Reviews
- Finished @MortenHoiJensen’s book yesterday and now I’m mad at myself I didn’t read it earlier 😌 If interested in how Darwin impacted Western literature, that glorious age when science + poetry were friends — but also the tragedy of secularism and how art grew up to balance it, https://t.co/T7P4FEfq9lLink to Tweet
About Book
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.