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Georg Brandes

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in Denmark

February 04, 1842

Died

February 19, 1927

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Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (4 February 1842 – 19 February 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature. According to Brandes, literature should be an organ "of the great thoughts of liberty and the progress of humanity." His literary goals were shared by many authors, among them the Norwegian realist playwright Henrik Ibsen.
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	Nietzsche: Un ensayo sobre el radicalismo aristocrático (Ensayo Sexto Piso) 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1914 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: Volume 1: The Emigrant Literature 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Søren Kierkegaard 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1877 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friedrich Nietzsche: I. An essay on Aristocratic Radicalism / II. December 1899 / Correspondence between Friedrich Nietzsche and George Brandes / III. August 1900 / IV. 1909 by Georg Brandes, William Mann (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: Volume 2: The Romantic School in Germany 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: Volume 4: Naturalism in England (1875) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: Volume 3: The Reaction in France (1874) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1873 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Reading: An Essay 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1906 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poland: a Story of the Land People and Literature 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1888 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Shakespeare: A Critical Study 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is useless to send armies against ideas.”
― Georg Brandes

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“The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models.”
― Georg Brandes

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“There are productive spirits who require many and great destinies or experience in order to produce a small work. There is a kind of poet who, from a hundred pounds of rose leaves, produces one drop of attar of roses. And on the other hand, there are talents whose nature is so fruitful, whose inner climate is so tropical, that from a quite plain everyday life situation, which they experience with the highest energy, they extract whole series of important works. They are like those treeless islands in the Pacific on which passengers from a passing ship leave some fruit-kernels, and which many years later are covered with mighty forests. Kierkegaard belonged to the latter kind.”
― Georg Brandes, Søren Kierkegaard

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