Reviews about Henrik Pontoppidan
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Lucky Per, Part 8: Lucky Per. His Last Struggle
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There will hardly be found in any Danish novel a more meticulous and profound depiction of the state of the soul than in this conclusion. Pontoppidan is a savant in his view of man, consummate and subtle, one could go so far as to say. He excavates layer after layer and doesn’t tire before he reaches the bottom. And in constantly making the contemporary individual, whom he regards as being especially Danish, richer and greater in spiritual stature the writing also acquires more depth of mind and universality.
This calm and thoughtful portrayal is given in language which rings true and evocative, elicits smiles and reflections, utterly free from affectation, always strong and absorbing. He is a master, Pontoppidan. Not merely a master here-and-now, but such that no giant of the forest anywhere can approach the stylistic grandeur of this Danish storyteller.
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Edward Brandes in Politiken, 16 December 1904
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The Realm of the Dead, Part 1: Torben and Jytte
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The result is before us as two sumptuous volumes, whose weighty contents fully corresponds to their outer appearance. Pontoppidan stands unchallenged as our contemporary writing’s number one man in the area of prose fiction, emphatically not as a Naturalist but as a Realist and a superb storyteller.
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Karl Mortensen in Fyens Stiftstidende, 6 November 1917
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Man's Heaven
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The living form and the clean, strong language is the same as what characterized the works of Henrik Pontoppidan’s manhood.
You feel that the Master has the power of words, and that he still feels the desire to chastise the times and humanity.
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Reviewed in Vestjyll. Soc.-Demokrat , 22 October 1927
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