Born on a Danish country estate to a romantic mother and a practical father, Niels Lyhne grows up a dreamer who wants to be a poet. In Copenhagen and abroad he falls in love, rejects God, and tries to live by his atheism through friendship, marriage and loss, testing whether a life without consolation can still be lived honestly.
A landmark of Scandinavian modernism that Rilke urged every young poet to read. Download the free EPUB.