Mogens and Other Stories Jens Peter Jacobsen 9781294735076 Books
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Mogens and Other Stories Jens Peter Jacobsen 9781294735076 Books Reviews
A gem!
From the four stories in this book, ‘The Plague in Bergamo’ is the most interesting one. Its theme is rather unexpected for the author of “Niels Lyhne’, because it is a religious one.
When the plague breaks out in Bergamo, people are ‘hoping from the power of evil the protection which heaven had not vouchsafed them’.
A strange procession of flagellants (not unlike the one in the movie ‘The Seventh Seal’ by I. Bergman), ‘a frenzy of self-humiliation, in blood and wailing, beneath wet gleaming scourges’, enters the city with at their head a young monk. In his preach he insults the inhabitants of Bergamo and reveals them that ‘the Son of God saw that these mobs that fill the earth, were not worthy of salvation. He tore free His feet and He clenched His Hands round the nails and tore them out.’ The reaction of the mob is astonishing. Or perhaps not?
‘Mogens’ is a very loosely built love story.
‘There should have been roses’ contains two very innocent monologues.
‘Mrs. Fonss’ tells the story of a widow who meets again the love of her youth. She wants to marry again against the will of her children. Will she choose a life in her own way?
These stories do not have the same qualities as J.P. Jacobsen’s masterpiece ‘Niels Lyhne’.
Only for fans of the author.
If you were an author, how would you like to have these folks write blurbs for you? Rainer Maria Rilke (who more or less said, of all my books only the Bible and Jacobsen are indispensable); Sigmund Freud (…has made a profound impression on my heart); Thomas Mann (Jacobsen had the greatest influence on my style…); Hermann Hesse (powerful imagination…huge talent). Jacobsen was a Danish author (1847-1885) who was also a naturalist. The introduction to almost every story has a startlingly precise and wonderful naturalist description. And the stories are startling too a groom-to-be loses his beloved in a fire; a spurned man secretly kills his lover’s intended husband and eventually gets even more revenge; a woman transfers her illness to another through a curse; during the plague years, lascivious townspeople take on a roving band of flagellants. In the last story, a widow gets remarried to her childhood sweetheart and her children cut off all contact with her. The story ends with a letter the woman wrote to her children on her death bed. The Afterword tells us Jacobsen wept while he wrote the ending.
There is something weird about these on demand prints. I came across a few typos and I just didn't feel like I was reading the original book with Jacobson's exact words. Don't pass up this book, but I suggest going with a different publisher.
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An odd book, literary history, influenced Rilke, Freud, Mann, Cady.
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