A difficult death : the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen / Morten Høi Jensen ; foreword by James Wood.

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 importa...

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