Description
Taking place during the first half of the sixteenth century, The Fall of the King tells the story of dreamy, slacking student Mikkel Th gersen and the entanglements that ultimately bring him into service as a mercenary under King Christian II of Denmark. Moving from the Danish countryside to Stockholm during the execution of Swedish nobility and finally to the imprisonment of Mikkel and Christian, the narrative is a lyrical encapsulation of "the fall"--the fall of country, history, individuals, and nature.
Twice voted as the most important Danish novel of the twentieth century, The Fall of the King is both an epic depiction of real events and a complex psychological novel. Half pure narration, half prose poem, its scenes of brute realism mixed with rhapsodical passages make it a work of artistic genius.
Author: Johannes V. Jensen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/10/2012
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.58w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780816677542
ISBN10: 0816677549
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) is widely considered the first great Danish writer of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944.