Pelle the Conqueror
Martin Andersen Nexø
Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
Pelle the Conqueror is a Danish novel written by
Martin Andersen Nexø.
The novel follows the character
Pelle Karlsson, who immigrates to Denmark from Sweden in 1877 at age eight. At 18, he moves from Bornholm to Copenhagen, and becomes a leader in the labour movement in Denmark, motivated by poor working conditions.
Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.
Translated from the Danish by
Jessie Muir and
Bernard Miall.
Kundenbewertungen
Social realism, Immigrant experience, Rural Denmark, Proletarian novel, Scandinavian culture, Pelle the Conqueror, Danish literature, Martin Andersen Nexø