02780cam a2200397 i 4500 380373265 TxAuBib 20190506120000.0 181119s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018053817 9781101908099 28.00 1101908092 28.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda eng dan Pontoppidan, Henrik, 1857-1943. Lykke-Per English. Lucky Per [BOOK] / by Henrik Pontoppidan ; translated from the Danish by Naomi Lebowitz ; with an introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. xli, 610 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Everyman's library ; 390 Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-610). "A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"-- but is only newly available in English. Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast. and capture and bind it." Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and itsminor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of "luck" to "happiness" (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life"-- Provided by publisher. "A hardcover edition of the 1904 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan, widely considered "the great Danish novel," but not available in English until recently. In a translation by Naomi Lebowitz, with a new introduction by novelist Garth Risk Hallberg, bibliography, and chronology"-- Provided by publisher. 20190506. Young men Fiction. Happiness Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Fortune Fiction. Copenhagen (Denmark) Fiction. Lebowitz, Naomi. Hallberg, Garth Risk. Everyman's library ; 390.