The Fall of the King - Softcover

Taking place during the first half of the sixteenth century, The Fall of the King tells the story of dreamy, nonchalant student Mikkel Thøgersen and and the entanglements that ultimately bring him into service as a mercenary under King Christian II of Denmark.  Moving from the Danish countryside to Stockholm during the execution of Swedish nobility and finally to the imprisonment of Mikkel and Christian, the narrative is a lyrical retelling of "the fall" --the fall of country, history, the individual, and nature. 

Twice voted the most important Danish  novel of the twentieth century, The Fall of the King is both an epic depiction of real events and a complex psychological novel.  Half pure narration and half prose poem, its scenes of brute realism mixed with rhapsodic passages passages make it a work of artistic genius.

About the author:  Johannes V. Jensen (1837-1950) is widely considered the first great Danish writer of the twentieth century. Born in Farsø, a village in North Jutland, Denmark, he later studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen before devoting himself to writing.  Acclaimed as the father of Danish modernism, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944.  

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Softcover
273 pages