Jacobsen, J. P. (Jens Peter) 1847-1885 creator Larsen, Hanna Astrup 1873-1945 text utu 2017 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Niels Lyhne" by J. P. Jacobsen is a novel written in 1880. This Danish work follows its title character through his renunciation of faith, personal losses, and growing disillusionment. Considered part of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough movement, the novel examines individual struggle, artistic ambition, and the helplessness of the individual. It depicts both the failures of atheism and faith, offering a naturalistic portrait of an atheistic bourgeois intellectual confronting life's disappointments and, ultimately, death. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Lyhne Release date is 2017-08-19 E-text prepared by Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Original publication data not identified Denmark -- Fiction Danish fiction -- Translations into English PT Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55389 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55389 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134257.0 55389