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“... the Nobel Prize in 1917, there was no English-language version of this extraordinary novel until Naomi Lebowitz’s appeared in 2010 with the title Lucky Per. Paul Larkin’s translation is entitled A Fortunate Man, which was also used for the 2018 Danish film adaptation. The cultural context is gone, but the question remains: what does it mean to be ...”

“... Once upon a time, when provinces still existed, an ambitious young provincial would now and again attempt to take the capital by storm: Midwesterners arriving in New York; Balzacian youths plotting their onslaught on the metropolis (‘à nous deux, maintenant!’); eloquent Irishmen getting a reputation in London; and Scandinavians – Ibsen, Georg Brandes, Strindberg, Munch – descending on Berlin to find a culture missing in the bigoted countryside ...”