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Lykke-Per (Lucky Per, published by Gyldendal 1898-1904) is the magnum opus of the Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan, winner of the 1917 Nobel Prize. It is a novel of development centered on an internationally experienced young engineer with great ideas of transforming his agrarian home country into a modern industrial state. The novel takes a surprising turn however, when at the top of his career, this son of a Lutheran minister goes on an interior voyage to explore individual freedom and self. Internationally the novel has been praised by Thomas Mann and Georg Lukcs who classified Lykke-Per with Don Quixote as the only two novels fulfilling his demands for epical totality and dynamism.
Recommended by Angelica Baird.
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