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First published January 1, 1842
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Steen Steensen Blicher
211 books11 followersSteen Steensen Blicher (11. oktober 1782 i faderens præstegård i Vium – 26. marts 1848) var en dansk præst og forfatter, søn af Niels Gudme Blicher. Han tog embedseksamen fra pastoralseminariet i 1809. Blicher virkede som præst i Thorning og i Spentrup, men er bedst kendt for sine digte, noveller og oversættelser af internationalt kendte værker.
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther[citation needed].
He grew up in close contact to nature and peasant life in the moor areas of Jutland. After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.
As a clergyman he is said to have been less than inspired. His main interests were hunting and writing. In 1842 he was accused of alcoholism and abandoned from a Cooperation of Danish writers. Many struggles with his superiors the following years led to his dismissal shortly before his death.
He had ten children, (seven sons and three daughters), with his wife Ernestine Juliane Berg whom he married on 11 June 1810.
Blicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish]. 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 masterpieces.
In these works he describes human fate in his home region in Jutland, He is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour.
He is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator — theme in literature.
(from Wikipedia)
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther[citation needed].
He grew up in close contact to nature and peasant life in the moor areas of Jutland. After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.
As a clergyman he is said to have been less than inspired. His main interests were hunting and writing. In 1842 he was accused of alcoholism and abandoned from a Cooperation of Danish writers. Many struggles with his superiors the following years led to his dismissal shortly before his death.
He had ten children, (seven sons and three daughters), with his wife Ernestine Juliane Berg whom he married on 11 June 1810.
Blicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish]. 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 masterpieces.
In these works he describes human fate in his home region in Jutland, He is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour.
He is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator — theme in literature.
(from Wikipedia)
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September 23, 2021
Det bliver ikke bedre på dansk end Blichers bedste noveller. Denne samling mangler "Sildig opvågnen" og sidder rent ortografisk nu - hvor alle moderniseringer kommer til at sidde med tiden - i et ubrugeligt ingenmandsland mellem originalerne og nutidig retskrivning, men ellers er det en ret god samling og et helt fint sted at starte.
November 22, 2014
Naar Man gaar til denne Bouch uden at ahne, hvad Man monne maatte faa at læhse, kan Man maaskee troe, at den er tøer og keedeliig, thi den være saa gammel, som den ere. Det er dog ingenlunde Tilfældet, viiser det sig. Blot Man skal vænde sig til den særeegne Stavemaade, og det aldrede Sproeg.
Novellerne ere alle fulde af Liiv, og handler om Liiv, Død, Kiærligheed, Jakt, Mord, Intriguer, Kriig, og liignende dramatiske Emner. Tiiden, de ere skrevne i, troe, indeholder en deel av dem usandsynliige Tilfæller og Samuentræf, men det ere blot en del af den Tiids Kontrakte meed Læseren, og ere blot charmant.
I E Bindstouw ere den heele Text skreven paa Jydsk lydskriute, huilket til at begynne med ere saare ulæseliigt, men snart Man vænder sig deertil, og det bliver dermeed et ganske fornøieligen Spil Skriften at tyhde.
Novellerne ere alle fulde af Liiv, og handler om Liiv, Død, Kiærligheed, Jakt, Mord, Intriguer, Kriig, og liignende dramatiske Emner. Tiiden, de ere skrevne i, troe, indeholder en deel av dem usandsynliige Tilfæller og Samuentræf, men det ere blot en del af den Tiids Kontrakte meed Læseren, og ere blot charmant.
I E Bindstouw ere den heele Text skreven paa Jydsk lydskriute, huilket til at begynne med ere saare ulæseliigt, men snart Man vænder sig deertil, og det bliver dermeed et ganske fornøieligen Spil Skriften at tyhde.
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