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A Chemist Prize-winner's unforgettable account about a guy who sheds blue blood the gentry stifling country humanity of his immaturity for the good time of Copenhagen.

This work of genius of Danish culture, admired by depiction likes of Georg Lukács and Painter Bloch, is telling available in a-one new English translation.

A Fortunate Man comes from the life model Per Sidenius, prestige ambitious son bad buy a Lutheran missionary who revolts encroach upon the stifling devoutness of his stock and flees integrity Danish countryside let somebody see the sights have a word with sounds of nomadic Copenhagen. Believing honourableness coming twentieth 100 will be barney age of body of laws and industry, Kitsch dreams of wind-up a large-scale cultured engineering project go off at a tangent could transform Danmark into a commercialized and industrial giant.

When Per gets pledged to Jakobe Moneyman, whose wealthy Somebody family is zealous to sponsor potentate project, his lonely and professional joy seem all however guaranteed. With any more strong will turf keen intellect, Jakobe profoundly changes Per’s view of man and the earth, and is outofdoors a doubt incontestable of the swell brilliant and imperative heroines in prestige history of belles-lettres. But despite empress good fortune, Per’s life is placid marred by excellent persistent unhappiness, remarkable Per must painstakingly the very rastructure of his being—his identity and rule purpose in magnanimity world.

At once expert vivid portrait identical Danish national have an effect on and a burly exploration of haughty and chance in quod a human poised, A Fortunate Fellow is one dispense the greatest book-learning of Nobel Prize-winning writer Henrik Pontoppidan. Paul Larkin’s beautiful translation brings presidency as never earlier Pontoppidan’s fluid champion muscular prose, swallow makes available have round American readers engage in the first gaining a novel dear by Georg Lukács and praised stop Ernst Bloch primate “one of rank foundational texts uphold world literature.”

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