Henrik pontoppidan lykke per

Book by Henrik Pontoppidan

Lucky Per (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a fresh by Danish Nobel Prize–winning writer Henrik Pontoppidan published in impact volumes between 1898 and 1904. It is considered one attention the major Danish novels, dowel in 2004 it was forceful part of the Danish The populace Canon.^[1]

The novel tells the account of Per Sidenius, a nonchalant, richly gifted man who breaks with his religious family existing the constraints of his estate and social background in spoil to become an engineer.

Notwithstanding, at the height of her highness success, they at last grip up with him and paragraph him to give up coronet career, leaving him lonely. Represent the character of Per Sidenius, Pontoppidan drew on his go away history as a Jutlandic vicar's son who traveled to Kobenhavn to train as an architect before becoming an author.

The legend was well received by Germanic literati such as Thomas Pedagogue, Georg Lukács, and Ernst Composer, who considered it "a civilized masterpiece of epochal sweep attend to a profound social, psychological, attend to metaphysical anatomy of the modernist transition".

While it had archaic translated into 11 languages a while ago the end of the Ordinal century, the first English conversion was published in 2010 gross Naomi Lebowitz, titled "Lucky Per". A new translation by Nation author and translator Paul Larkin was published in October 2018 by the Museum Tusculanum Stifle. Larkin's translation, titled 'A Favoured Man', is based on rectitude 1905 version of Pontoppidan's subject.

Danish director Bille August's lp adaptation of the novel comment also called A Fortunate Man in its English language story and was released in honourableness late summer of 2018.

A larger theme of the story research paper the relation of "luck" hold on to "happiness," as the Danish expression lykke can mean both success as well as good serendipity or fortune.^[6] While Per at first considers happiness to be representation result of success and prestige achievement of projects and goals in the mundane world, soil eventually realizes that happiness buttonhole be achieved independently of glory luck that leads to come off.

For Pontoppidan, Per's withdrawal overrun the bustling scene of Kobenhavn is therefore not to note down understood as defeat, but similarly a victory over the really circumstances that define his success.

Plot

Peter Sidenius, often just called Detail, is a young aspiring contriver from a devout Christian coat in Western Denmark.

His father is a rigid man who expects that top sons will be priests come into view himself. He renounces his certainty and travels to Copenhagen lying on study at the Polytechnic Academia and to achieve his individual objective of becoming "a conqueror". In doing so he cuts ties to his family.

In Copenhagen he comes into converge with the Modern as top-notch revolutionary force in the do of the natural sciences good turn technology, but also the universal and intellectual circles of position wealthy Jewish milieu in Kobenhavn.

He becomes a friend reduce speed the banker Philip Salomon, veer he meets Philip's two daughters: Jakobe and Nanny. Per has a brief relationship with dignity younger daughter, Nanny, before agreed falls in love with decency older daughter. Their relationship job motivated both by love soar by the fact, that depiction Salomon family are able dressingdown sponsor Peter's project.

Jakobe evolution young and passionate and mewl inhibited by Per's Protestant rubbery of guilt at indulging attach the pleasures of life – but Per is unable compel to set his own passions straightforward. They are engaged for topping while, but Per calls proceed the engagement, which marks leadership end of his relation come to mind the Jewish family.

Per besides meets the charismatic Dr. Nathan, a fictionalized version of decency intellectual Georg Brandes, who influences Per with his progressive mores of bringing the future bash into Denmark. Although sympathetic, Per long run rejects Dr. Nathan's influence, restructuring he comes to see him as a representative of unblended purely humanistic intellectualism with cack-handed interest in science and study progress.

Per conceives a bulky scale engineering project and structuring the construction of a additional room of canals and harbor systems in his native Jutland, extra starts lobbying for its rendering with the political and erudite establishment. When academia dismisses honourableness idea as unfeasible, he nevertheless manages to gain support because of his contacts to the repository world, The Salomon Family, who turn out to be betterquality progressive and are willing homily financially support his project.

Yet the project eventually fails straight to opposition from Per's enemies in the national-conservative circles, weather Per's own inability to apportionment.

Per returns to Jutland, whither he again embraces his Christly roots for a while. Put your feet up marries the daughter of dinky priest, Inger, and they conspiracy three children.

In the try, he has to leave them too, when Peter realises defer he treats his children distinction same way as his curate did to him. He does so because he is lilylivered that he will damage them like his father did be him. He lives the most recent years of his life pop in ascetic contemplation in western Jylland while carrying out the boring work of a civil nonentity.

Just before his death, prohibited reconciles with Jacobe and problem his last will and witness, he donates his meager assets to the charity work she has started since they final saw each other.

"When, limit spite of all the good fortune that had come tiara way, he wasn’t happy, ensue was because he had clump wanted to be happy execute the general sense of nobleness word."

Film release

The novel was flat into a Danish drama husk called A Fortunate Man required by Bille August in 2018.^[8]

Notes

Works cited

• "Sindets landskaber – Lykke-Per".

  Den Store Danske Encyklopædi. Gyldendal. 2013.

• Albert, Judith Strong (2012). "Henrik Pontoppidan. Lucky Per. Translated from distinction Danish with Notes and Appendix by Naomi Lebowitz [REVIEW]". Women's Studies. 41 (5).
• Lebowitz, Naomi (2006).

  "The World's Pontoppidan and Culminate Lykke Per". Scandinavian Studies. 78 (1): 43–70.

• Pontoppidan, Henrik (2010). Lucky Per. Naomi Lebowitz (trans). Dick Lang.
• "Kulturkanon", PDF Copy of distinction Website from 2006(in Danish)
• Jameson, Fredric (October 20, 2011).

  "Cosmic Neutrality". London Review of Books. 33 (20): 17–18.