Pontoppidan's (1857-1943) novel Lykke Per was written in 1898-1904, and was described as seminal in modern world literature by such figures as Thomas Mann and George Lucacs, but has not been translate
A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"-- but is only newly available in English.Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambi
