Morten Høi Jensen

'The Master of Contradictions'

Bog | Engelsk

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual nec

'Difficult Death, A: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (HB)'

Bog | Engelsk

Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery. While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandina