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Original Title:	Lykke-Per
ISBN:	8702046873 (ISBN13: 9788702046878)
Edition Language:	Danish

Lykke-Per

Henrik Pontoppidan

Hardcover | Pages: 702 pages

Rating: 4.48 | 682 Users | 70 Reviews

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Title	:	Lykke-Per
Author	:	Henrik Pontoppidan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	5
Pages	:	Pages: 702 pages
Published	:	2006 by Gyldendal (first published 1898)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Danish. Cultural. Denmark. Novels

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It’s a complete mystery to me why this book isn’t better known and why it hasn’t taken its place amongst the canon of great European novels. It wasn’t translated into English until 2010, and with that translation and now with a new one in 2018 under the title of A Fortunate Man perhaps it will gain a wider readership. It certainly deserves to. Its author Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) was an acclaimed Danish author but is little known outside his native land – although in 1917 he was awarded, along with Karl Gjellerup (equally forgotten) the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his authentic description of present-day life in Denmark”. Lykke Per, or Lucky Per (the word lykke means both lucky and happy in Danish) is a Bildungsroman chronicling the life of Per Sidenius, a gifted young man, the descendant of a long line of clergymen, who rebels against the piety of his home, flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside and sets out to seek fame and fortune in Copenhagen as an engineer. He’s ambitious and self-confident but life doesn’t quite play out as he hopes. Set against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Denmark in an age of social and industrial unrest and the struggles between conservatives and progressives, Christians and atheists, the old and the new, it’s a panoramic portrait of a country and a people moving into the new century. Per wants to be part of that future. Complex and multi-layered, I found the novel a fascinating portrayal of Danish society in that era as well as a nuanced character study of Per himself. The people he meets are equally interesting, not least the remarkable Jakobe, one of his love interests, a vibrant and independent young Jewish woman, who, for me, was as important as Per himself in the narrative and can take her place among the great heroines of literature. The novel can rightly claim to be the “great Danish novel” and I hope it will become better known. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it wholeheartedly.

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Read because I'd never heard of this author, Denmark's most famous historically, winner of 1917 Nobel in Lit for this book. A long exhumation through the depressive character of Per Sidenius, country boy and stern pastor's son, who has an engineering dream of a canal system for Jutland, comes to Copenhagen (start of th engine). Saga of the painful transition to modernity -- its social, economic, psychological consequences for a mostly agricultural people. Per is not exactly admirable, but his

one of the great assholes of literature. a level of complex human characterization comparable to george eliot, or dickens

Now here is a book I almost gave up on numerous times over the first 100 or so pages; even setting it aside for a few weeks. Eventually I picked it up again, I don't know why. I like the cover. Turned out to be one the greatest novels I've read. Talk about accumulative effect. It's left a certain part of me reeling.

Visit the locations in the novelTranslated novels are always interesting to read. When one is 100 years old and has a new translation, its worth more than a brief glance.Lucky Per seems to be a simple title, but the word Lykke in Danish can mean both happiness and luck. This novel therefore looks into the difference between the two and what the relationship between them is.An interesting novel this and one which reminded me of an adult fairy tale in the way theres a moral side to the story and

This is a novel that's hard to pin down at first, but is rewarding in the end. I first came to it in search of a Danish novel, but it surprised me in being much more than that. The book certainly has a lot to teach about Denmarkits different regions, its culture, and what it was like at the turn of the centurybut I'm not sure I'd recommend it if that's all you're looking for. It only does that so well. Instead, what made it more fulfilling for me was its timelessness and universality. While it

An exceptionally well written book. Pontoppidan wrote the book in 1898 but it reads like it could have been written today with only the subject matter dating it. The story is somewhat autobiographical and loosely follows Pontoppidan's early years growing up in an overly religious family and his attending engineering school. The main protagonist is Per Sidenius who rebelled as a child against his parents and their strict religious practices and later became estranged from his family. He grew up

Great book. Lucky Per is never a fully likable character and the mastery of the author is such that you want to quickly read on to find out what is in store for him next, and how he will mess it up. The most enjoyable part was that of Jakobe Salomon, a Danish Anna Karenina who does not succumb to tragedy but keeps it together and finds a place in the world. We should find another great writer to conjure for us what became of her in her later years.