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“... giving his own masterpiece, published in eight volumes between 1898 and 1904, the title Lykke-Per, Henrik Pontoppidan was placing his work in the national literary tradition and inviting Danish readers to compare and contrast. Despite his winning the Nobel Prize in 1917, there was no English-language version of this extraordinary novel until Naomi ...”

“... Munch – descending on Berlin to find a culture missing in the bigoted countryside. So also Henrik Pontoppidan’s hero, an unhappy clergyman’s son who flees the windswept coasts of Jutland for a capital city which is itself narrow-minded and provincial in comparison with the bustling centres of Europe. Denmark has just lost a war, and an ...”