Georg Brandes, the Danish critic who championed Ibsen and Nietzsche, recalls a Copenhagen childhood seen from below, school and the theatre, his student years, and his first long journeys abroad. He sketches the Danish literary world of the 1860s, including the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg, and the encounters that shaped his career.
An absorbing autobiography of a European intellectual, valuable for anyone interested in Scandinavian literature. Download the free EPUB.