Finished: Lucky Per (Pontoppidan) Revered in Denmark as "the great Danish" novel, Lucky Per follows the story of one man, Peter Andreas Sidenius, aka, Per. The book won Pontoppidan the Nobel Prize in 1917. It truly was a long, detailed book, similar to how it was reading War and Peace for me. There was so much discussion of Denmark's economy and politics and especially religion as we were given insight into not only Per's deep, and often depressing thoughts, but also those of the first woman he became engaged to, Jakobe, a Jewish heiress. Per, having been raised by a strict, Christian father and loving, but sickly mother, along with his several brothers and sisters, felt differently from everyone in his family from a young age. He didn't at all embrace the religion that their family thrived on. The book is far too long and expository for me to recap the entire story. I did enjoy it, though, despite the many tangents and pontifications. I think I might just include part of the book jacket cover here, which probably explains the book better than I can! I'm so happy to have received this book from my son. :-)
"Pontoppidan provides a panoramic view of the contradictions of the modernizing world through the portrait of a single driven and beleaguered soul. Per Sidenius, unhappy son of an austere clergyman, rejects his faith and flees the Danish countryside for the capital city. Gifted and ambitious, he arrives in Copenhagen...." "Per's obsession is a grandiose engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor position in the world. While working relentlessly to achieve this inflated vision of personal and national destiny, he pursues the fiercely independent heiress Jakobe Salomon..." "Though Per's ambitions come to grief along the way, at its heart his story turns on his belated understanding of the true relationship between luck and happiness."
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