TY - BOOK AU - Bedel,Maurice TI - Jérôme 60° latitude nord AV - PQ PY - 2025/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Dramatists -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- 20th century KW - French -- Norway -- Fiction KW - Kristiania (Norway) -- Fiction N1 - Prix Goncourt 1927; Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_60%C2%B0_latitude_nord; Release date is 2025-07-21; Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Originally published; Paris: Gallimard, 1927 N2 - Jérôme 60° latitude nord by Maurice Bedel is a novel written in the early 20th century. It blends romantic comedy with satirical travel writing as a young French dramatist journeys to Norway to stage his play and falls for a forthright Norwegian student, Uni Hansen. Expect a witty clash of ideals and realities—Nordic landscapes and sports, Parisian myths, and theatrical ambitions—filtered through a hero whose imagination outruns the world around him. The opening of the novel follows Jérôme aboard a steamer from England, where his exuberant imagination turns every sight into legend and where he instantly falls for Uni, a cool, lively astronomy student. In Bergen he’s mobbed by journalists and miscast as a pundit on everything, then on the train to Christiania he finds Uni again and learns her cheerful companion is her brother, Axel. In the capital he becomes a minor celebrity, is whisked by Axel to meet his translator-mother, Clara Krag (a reformist, vegetarian novelist), and the good-humored Minister Krag, then confers with the theatre director about staging his play. A Sunday at Holmenkollen shows the brisk, sportive Norway of his dreams; amid playful skiing and a clumsy compliment that lands awkwardly, Jérôme’s infatuation deepens, even as a boisterous dinner with newspapermen leaves him thinking only of Uni. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435016302663 UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76544 ER -