We would like to introduce some representative authors to help readers gain more information and understanding of Danish literature.
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN (2)
 |
| Danish writer Becker Knuth. |
BECKER Knuth (1892-1974) was a Danish writer. He came from a petty bourgeois family. Until the age of 32, he worked as a blacksmith and mechanic. His collection of poems (Digte, 1916) was published during World War I. Becker's poetry was anti-war. He sympathized with the lower classes and criticized narrow bourgeois morality. He wrote a nine-volume novel, with many autobiographical features: The Daily Bread (Det Daglige Brod, 1932), The Waiting World (Verden Venter, 1934, two volumes), The Restless Spring (Uroligt Foraar, 1938-1939, three volumes), When the Train Departs (Naar Toget Koerer, 1944, two volumes), Marianne (1956).
BLICHER Steen Steensen (1782-1848) was a Danish writer and poet. He was the son of a pastor and a pastor himself. His short stories describe the history and present of his native Jutland. Blisher had reformist ideas in the light of bourgeois thought. He heralded the critical realism movement.
BLIXEN-FJNECKE Karen (1885-1962) , Danish writer, also known by the pen names Isak Dinesen and Pierre Andresel. She wrote in Danish and English. She came from a noble landowner background. She owned a coffee plantation in Kenya (Africa) and lived there from 1914 to 1931. Blixen-Fjnecke had a general humanitarian perspective, often contrasting good and evil. Her first collection of short stories appeared in 1934 in the United States (in English): Seven Gothic Tales . She used African memories in The Farm in Africa (1937) and Shadows on the Grass (1960).
BRANDES Georg (1842-1927) was a Danish literary critic. He defended realism and naturalism, demanding that literature serve progress and oppose reaction. He had a great influence on the cultural life of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Later, Brandes was also influenced by Nietzsche and sympathized with the Russian October Revolution.
BRANNER Hans Christian (1903-1966) was a Danish writer and playwright. His works dealt with the psychological and social conflicts during the German occupation. Branner's humanitarian view was that preserving personal morality was more important than reforming society. Branner depicted the alienation and loneliness of man in capitalist society. Novels: Horseman (1949), No One Knows the Night (1955).
DRACHMANN Holger (1846-1908) was a Danish writer and poet, the son of a physician. At first, he pursued a career as a painter. Later he became a journalist and writer. His attitude wavered between the two radical bourgeois and conservative tendencies. At first, he was influenced by the radical Danish critic G. Brandes, and published a collection of Poems (Digte, 1872) expressing his sympathy for the Paris Commune and the struggle of the proletariat.
After breaking with the Brandes group. Expressed passionate romantic feelings in plays, novels and poems. The travelogue Med Kul og Kridt (1872) and the story collection In Storms and Calms (I Storm og Stille, 1875)… were written about coastal people, with a tendency towards realism. The autobiographical novel Forskrevet (1890) was influenced by Nietzsche, criticizing the contemporary bourgeoisie.
GELSTED Otto (1888-1968) was a Danish poet and critic, well-educated and a journalist. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, he fled to Sweden. In the 1920s, his poetry tended toward anarchism and mysticism. Gelsted expressed his belief in human development and optimism in his philosophical and nature-praising poetry collections: The Virgin Gloriant (Jomfru Gloriant, 1923), Towards the Pure (Henimod Klarhed, 1931).
The form is simple and clear, in contrast to the negative and pessimistic tendencies of Danish bourgeois poetry. As early as the 1930s, Gelsted's poetry had a clear political tendency, expressing sympathy for Marxism: the collection Under Uvejret (1934) clearly pointed out the threat of fascism. The poem De Morke Fugle (1940) deeply condemned the German Nazis who invaded Denmark. The collection Emigrantdigte (1945) expressed passionate patriotism. Towards the end of his life, Gelsted translated classical Greek poetry.
HANSEN Martin Alfred (1909-1955) was a Danish writer. He came from a peasant family. He worked in agriculture before becoming a teacher. Through his journalism, he became involved with the anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II. Hansen wrote novels and short stories, describing the impact of the world economic crisis on the countryside. Life during the war made Hansen have an existential attitude, far from rationality, close to the naive beliefs of the people; Hansen criticized bourgeois civilization. Anti-communist tendencies became increasingly evident. Influenced the younger generations of Danish writers following existentialism.
Works: Jonathan's Journey (Jonathan Rejse, 1941), historical novel The Liar (Logneren, 1950), novel written in the form of a diary of a "modern skeptic"; symbolic method.
Source
Comment (0)