Bücher von Jens Peter Jacobsen

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"Sie mußten bleiben, wo sie waren, die Leute aus Alt-Bergamo, und Tag für Tag ward das Wetter wärmer, und Tag für Tag ward die abscheuliche Ansteckung gieriger und gieriger in ihrem Griff. Das Entsetzen steigerte sich gleichsam zum Wahnsinn, und was da an Ordnung und rechtem Regiment gewesen war, das war, als habe die Erde es verschlungen und dafür das Schlimmste entsandt."Die Novelle "Die Pest in Bergamo" des dänischen Schriftstellers Jens Peter Jacobsen erschien erstmals 1881 unter dem Originaltitel "Pesten i Bergamo". Die hier vorliegende Neuausgabe der kongenialen Übersetzung von Mathilde Mann aus Anlass der Corona-Pandemie "wahrt Jacobsens Musikalität" (DIE ZEIT) und erscheint hier zusammen mit den folgenden Novellen:MogensEin Schuß in den NebelZwei Welten Hier sollten Rosen blühen Die Pest in Bergamo Jens Peter Jacobsen.Die Pest in Bergamo.Novellen.Aus dem Dänischen übertragen von Mathilde Mann (1859-1925).Durchgesehener Neusatz, diese Ausgabe folgt dem Erstdruck der Novellen in:Jens Peter Jacobsens sämtliche Werke, Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1912.Neuausgabe, LIWI Verlag, Göttingen 2020.LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a conflict joined between the old and the new, both going to extremes, in which nearly every one had a share. How many of the works of that period are already out-worn, and how old-fashioned the theories that were then so violently defended and attacked! Too much logic, too much contention for its own sake, one might say, and too little art. This was the period when Jens Peter Jacobsen began to write, but he stood aside from the conflict, content to be merely artist, a creator of beauty and a seeker after truth, eager to bring into the realm of literature "the eternal laws of nature, its glories, its riddles, its miracles," as he once put it. That is why his work has retained its living colors until to-day, without the least trace of fading.

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