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Title Statement | Lucky Per / by Henrik Pontoppidan ; translated from the Danish by Naomi Lebowitz ; with an introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg. |
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Series | Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) |
Author | Pontoppidan, Henrik, 1857-1943 |
Additional Contributors | Lebowitz, Naomi |
Publication | New York: Everyman's Library,2019. |
Extent of Item | xli, 610 pages ; |
ISBN | 1101908092 9781101908099 |
Other Number | 3560143 |
General Notes | Originally published in Danish as Lykke-Per by Nordisk Forlag A/S, Copenhagen, in 1898. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | "Lucky Per is 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"--Publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Young men--Fiction |
Fortune--Fiction | |
Happiness--Fiction | |
By Location | Copenhagen (Denmark)--Fiction |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |