Martin A. Hansen

Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair. One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off the coast of Denmark, a place that in winter is entirely cut off from the world at large by ice. It is winter when the book begins, and for years now Johannes has lived alone, even as he nurses a secret passion for Annemari, a former pupil. Annemari is engaged to a local man, Olaf, who has left the island but is due to return come spring. She is also being courted by a young engineer from the mainland. Such are the chief players in a compact drama, recorded in Johannes’s ironic, self-lacerating, and anything but reliable diary. Martin A. Hansen’s novel beautifully evokes the stark landscape of Sand Island and the immemorial circuit of the seasons as well as the mysterious passage of time in the human heart, all the while proceeding to a supremely suspenseful conclusion.

The Liar

The Liar (Sun and Moon Classics)

Disse breve føjer sig smukt til trebindsudgaven af Martin A. Hansens dagbøger. Her er det Hansens korrespondance, der bliver præsenteret - breve til og fra Hansen, fra en bred vifte af kendte profiler, heriblandt Thorkild Bjørnvig, Tage Skou-Hansen og Frank Jæger m.fl., til ukendte mænd og kvinder, der henvendte sig til Hansen med spørgsmål og kommentarer. Brevene vidner om diskussioner om krig og efterkrig, ansvar og skyld, litteraturen og dens rolle, og de fungerer derved som en kilde til forståelse af forfatteren og hans tankeverden samt den tid, han var en del af. Forsynet med grundige noter og kommentarer.

Korrespondance med kredsen omkring Heretica

Kætterbreve

Jonatans rejse

Herman Melville

Mogens Boisen

Moby-Dick eller Hvalen

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Den dramatiske 1500-tals roman om den ludfattige Kristoffer, der for at kunne udføre store heltegerninger forlader Halland og drager med tiggermunken Mattias mod Danmark.

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