Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Fiction, Classics, Literary BISAC-REL006730 ISBN10: 0548718040

ISBN10: 0548718040

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visionary experience--a collective delusion

and when the explorers and settlers pushed against the Mississippi

Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Fiction, Classics, Literary BISAC-REL006730 ISBN10: 0548718040Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' Jacobsen's breakthrough came already in 1876 with the historical and psychological novel Fru Marie Grubbe," entitled Marie Grubbe in English, "which for the first time in Danish literature presented a profound portrayal of a woman as a creature of instinct and desire and as a being searching for her own identity. The book's defiant individualism asserting human values as