Published in 1976 by Poul Kristensen, Herning, Denmark. Limited edition printed on Zerkall hand-made paper, with the first 200 copies numbered from 1 to 200, and then another 250 copies were unnumbered and placed at the disposition of the Blicher-Museum in Herning. ISBN 87-7468-052-8. This copy is one of the latter unnumbered copies. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION found in an original clean brown cardboard slipcase. It is translated from the Danish by Alexander Fenton, with an epilogue by Sigrid Undset, and with 19 BEAUTIFUL ETCHINGS BY JORGEN C. RASMUSSEN. The slipcase is in clean solid condition. Clean softback with a little bit of soiling at the spine where it was exposed. 115 clean and solidly bound pages.
From Wikipedia on the author and this book:
"Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark...
... Blicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish.[citation needed] From the 1820s until his death he wrote several tales that were published in local periodicals (mostly dealing with his home region), as well as historical and amateur scientific sketches. Much of this work is entertainment but as many as twenty or thirty pieces have been called literary masterpieces.
In his prose, Blicher describes human fate in his home region in Jutland. Blicher is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour.
Blicher is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator theme in literature. Four notable examples are:
The Diary of a Parish Clerk, his break-through story, tells of a poor peasant boy’s troubled life with unhappy love, war and exile. Years after the main plot occurred, he discovers that the woman he was in love with for years, ended up as a poor, pathetic alcoholic. He spent his old age in resignation and distrust..."
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