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Lucky Per
Henrik Pontoppidan
其他書名
Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2019-04-16
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1101908092
9781101908099
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KsiNDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"-- but is only newly available in English.
Lucky Per
is a
bildungsroman
about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast . . . and capture and bind it." Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of "luck" to "happiness" (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life.