Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Steen Steensen Blicher - The Diary of a Parish Clerk

Woodcuts by Povl Chrisensen


Kopenhagen, 1968. godine na 62. strane, ilustrovano.


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The 19th Century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alonngside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Manupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the 19th Century. Although the subject matter is deeply and truely that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storyteller`s art.

Blicher’s fame rests primarily on his short stories and short novels. His best-known work, the novella Brudstykker af en landsbydegns dagbog (1824; trans. in The Diary of a Parish Clerk and Other Stories), is written in masterful prose and shows Blicher’s psychological insight into the Jutlanders’ character. In his stories he ranges from resignation to humour to irony. The general feeling of his narrative style is realistic; life is seen as the great shatterer of illusions since it never keeps its promises. The Diary of a Parish Clerk and Other Stories (1996), translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen, includes seven of Blicher’s stories.