An award-winning translation of the influential Danish master
Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women���ncluding his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and
his passionate cousin who marries his friend���is search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literature�'s greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a
protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet, Jacobsen�'s masterpiece has at its center a young man who faces the anguish of the human condition but cannot find comfort in the Christian
faith. Tiina Nunnally�'s award-winning translation offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke, Ibsen, Mann, and Hesse.
