![]() ![]() Success sinks to the level of emergent mass culture - which is to say, fantasy and wish-fulfilment. (.) The formal result, for the novel, is strange and paradoxical, yet momentous: all successes grow to be alike, they lose their specificity and indeed their interest. "So it is that the naive Hans becomes the very prototype of foolishness and good fortune all at once and it is a modern and sophisticated version of this paradox that Pontoppidan offers us in this unusual novel.Lykke-Per/ A Fortunate Man was made into a film in 2018, directed by Bille August and starring Esben Smedī+ : fine, broad novel of its time and place.Now also translated by Paul Larkin, as A Fortunate Man (2018). ![]() The new (2019) Everyman's Library edition of Lebowitz's translation also includes an Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg.Translated and with an Afterword by Naomi Lebowitz.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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