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Mogens and Other Stories by Jens Peter Jacobsen

dori_anne's review against another edition

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4.0

Assez inégal selon les nouvelles, cependant j'aime toujours autant le lyrisme de Jens Peter Jacobsen qui s'inscrit dans des fresques semi réalistes semi romantiques. La question de l'amour est omniprésent et l'auteur le traite sous de multiples formes : l'amour déchu, l'amour passionnel, l'amour calme et tranquille, l'amour adolescent, l'amour d'une femme d'âge mûr (qui plus est mère), ce dernier très surprenant à trouver dans l'ouvrage écrit par un homme fin XIXe siècle. On est ainsi témoin, au travers de la plume de Jacobsen, de l'évolution progressive quoique laborieux des mœurs en Europe.

cassie4258's review against another edition

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emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

kiramke's review against another edition

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5.0

Once again I'm reading this so far after the reference leading me to it that I have completely forgotten what the reference was. Doesn't matter. A Dane who likes Darwin and influenced some of my early favorite writers? I'm in. The stories are fascinating and intense and lovely, there's a current of individualism and madness and nature... if nothing else, it's so so nice to find a 'classic' where all the people, women included, get to be full characters.

emibilland's review against another edition

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3.0

I only read "Et Skud i Tågen"(A shot in the fog) in this one but since I couldn't find it on its own I had to put on the whole collection. I feel like such a challenge cheater ;). Et Skud I Tågen was quite nice though! definitely looking forward to analysing the shit out of it! :b

hereisacupoftea's review against another edition

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4.0

4 stars just for Mrs. Fonss :") (and also, for the captivating writing in Mogens)

"Farewell, I say it here, but it is not the farewell which will be the last to you; it I will as late as I dare, and all my love will be in it, and all the longings for so many, many years, and the memories of the time when you were small, and a thousand wishes and a thousand thanks. Farewell Tage, farewell Elinor, farewell until the last farewell." (Mrs. Fonss)

nrya's review

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4.0

No es para nada el tipo de libro que acostumbro a leer y quizás por eso me ha pillado totalmente desprevenida. Es cortito y muy ameno, crudo (con todo lo que ello implica) pero entrañable. Me ha sorprendido un montón la ambientalidad (¿se llama así?) de la narrativa (???)
Lo he disfrutado pero a la vez siento que me he perdido muchas cosas por el camino; por eso le doy un "¿3,5-4/5? Quizás, puede, no sé, que más da"
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