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Marie Grubbe is a historical psychological novel that treats woman as a being driven by instinct and desire. The protagonist, Marie, is a Danish noblewoman that has a yearning for an individual and a satisfying erotic lifestyle. Searching for her own identity in a judgmental society might turn out to be easier said than done…!
"Depict[s] the times and existence of history's Marie Grubbe, at least from her fourteenth year in 1657 until her death in 1718, [with a] store of detail vividly culled from Danish history... This novel is essentially about the personality and development of Marie Grubbe...[who] learns relatively soon about the sham of society's mores, its ideas of status, and its precarious system of social roles, and she grows to scorn them"--from introduction.
Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century is a book by Jens Peter Jacobsen. A Danish noblewoman explores her desire for an independent and satisfying erotic life.
The history of the Novel is a story of perpetual change, so that its identity still remains open to question. The sixteen articles in Reinventions of the Novel investigate connections, differences and similarities in the Novel around the world for the past three hundred years. Rather than searching for the essence of the genre, they look for the formal and thematic patterns on which the novel thrives, considering such matters as tradition and modernity, realism, rhetoric and identity, tableau and spatiality, and wondering whether epic and avant-garde are not quite contradictory terms. Close readings combined with historical overviews and theoretical discussions open up new constellations in the history of the novel. Untraditional cross-readings are made between Rabelais and Jens Peter Jacobsen and between Balzac and Nicholson Baker. Transformations of traditional modes of epic, biography and Bildung are traced as far as Georges Perec and Günter Grass, while canonical classics like Proust, Joyce, Richardson and Goethe are read in prosaic, pragmatic and media specific contexts. In the 1920s many people predicted the death of the novel; now more than ever it seems to be the dominant literary form – perhaps because it is the same, yet always different.
While largely unknown today, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century. Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen's life, work, and death.--Adapted from book jacket.
MARIE GKUBBE A LADY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BY J. P. JACOBSEN Jt TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH BY HANNA ASTRUP LARSEN NEW YORK THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1917 I 9I 7 ty Ih American-Scandinavian Foundation 25. 2. Updike The JWerrymount Press Boston U. INTRODUCTION T ANGUAGE is like an instrument that requires to be 1 v tuned occasionally. A few times in the course of a century the literary language of a country needs to be tuned afresh for as no generation can be satisfied to think the thoughts of the preceding one, so no group of men in the world of letters can use the language of the school that went before them. With these words Georg Brandes begins his discussion 1 of the influence of J. P. Jacobsen, As Brandes himself was the critic who found new paths, Jacobsen was the creative artist who moulded his native language into a medium fit for modern ideas. At the time when Denmark and Norway had come to a parting of ways intellectually, and the great Norwegians were forming their own rugged style, Jacobsen gave the Danes a language suited to their needs, subtle, pliant, and finely modulated. He found new methods of approach to truth and even a new manner of seeing nature and humanity. In an age that had wearied of generalities, he emphasized the unique and the character istic. To a generation that had ceased to accept anything because it was accepted before, he brought the new power of scientific observation in the domain of the mind and spirit. In order to understand him it is necessary to follow the two currents, the one poetic, the other scientific, that ran through his life. Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in Jutland, in thelittle town of Thisted, on April 7, 1847, an was son a merchant in moderate circumstances. From his mother he inherited a desire to write poetry, which asserted itself while he was yet a boy. His other chief interest was botany, 1 Det moderne Genncmbruds vi INTRODUCTION then a new feature of the school curriculum. He had a fer vent love of all plant-life and enjoyed keenly the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen, in which flowers are endowed with personality. At twenty, Jacobsen wrote in his diary that he did not know whether to choose science or poetry for his life-work, since he felt equally drawn to both. He added If I could bring into the realm of poetry the eter nal laws of nature, its glories, its riddles, its miracles, then I feel that my work would be more than ordinary. He was one of the first in Scandinavia to realize the im portance of Darwin, and translated The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, besides writing magazine articles elucidating the principles of evolution. Meanwhile he car ried on his botanical research faithfully and, in 1872, won a gold medal in the University at Copenhagen for a thesis on the Danish desmidiactae, a microscopic plant growing in the marshes. In the same year, he made his literary debut with a short story, Mogens, which compelled attention by the daring originality of its style. From that time on, he seems to have had no doubt that his life-work was litera ture, though he became primarily a master of prose and not, as he had dreamed in his boyhood, a writer of verse. In the spring of 1873, e wrote fr m Copenhagen to Edvard Brandes 1 Just think, I get up every morning at eleven and go to the Royal Library, where I read old docu mentsand letters and lies and descriptions of murder, adul tery, corn rates, whoremongery, market prices, gardening, the siege of Copenhagen, divorce proceedings, christenings, estate registers, genealogies, and funeral sermons. All this is to become a wonderful novel to be called Mistress Marie Grubbe, Interiors from the Seventeenth Century. J. P. Jacobsen. Med Forord udgivne af Edvard Brandes. INTRODUCTION vii You remember, she is the one who is mentioned in Hoi bergs Epistles and in The Goose Girl by Andersen, and who was first married to U. F...
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