Johannes V. Jensen
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In addition to his novels, Johannes V. Jensen (YEHN-sehn) wrote a large number of essays dealing with evolutionary, anthropological, and historical topics. He also was a master of the shorter prose form, primarily seen in his series of Himmerland stories and myths. The stories are principally studies of characters from the Danish countryside, rendered with humor and irony but also permeated with a tragic view of life as meaningless, whereas the myths—embodying the core concept of Jensen’s aesthetics—are lyric and symbolic sketches of humankind, nature,...
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