![]() ![]() 2Ģ000: Lucky Per and The Fall of the King have in the course of the twentieth century been monumentalized as the most important works of their respective authors' oeuvres, epitomizing The Great Danish Novel rather than, say, genre-bending and feuilleton-like world literature. Come October 1901 with the release of the third, they will be collected under the title The Fall of the King. They are independent, yet interconnected. Meanwhile, in another part of town: While Pontoppidan's protagonist is stuck in a pleasant all-time high, atop a sun-flooded mountain in the Alps with his rich mistress, young Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873-1950) releases three short historical novels about a modern anti-hero stumbling through life, in the end inevitably falling, obeying 'the law of the fall'. Having written and released four 'informal pamphlets' – as they were called – about his protagonist, bringing him to the height of happiness, Pontoppidan stops and muses: Hm, what is he to make of this Per? After a two-year break he will begin releasing another four – before rewriting (and rewriting and rewriting) the stories from these pamphlets into a finished, properly bound novel. ![]() Jensen and Henrik Pontoppidanġ900: Creating a nice symmetry, Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) pauses midlife in what will be the midst of his 'Stories about Lucky Per'. ![]()
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