Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for his authentic descriptions of presentday life in Denmark. Pontoppidans novels and short stories informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. As a writer he was an interesting figure, distancing himself both from the conservative environment in which he was brought up and from his socialist contemporaries and friends. He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern BreakThrough.

rneflugt is a direct commentary on Hans Christian Andersens The Ugly Duckling with the opposite morale. An eagle brought up in a barnyard grows fat and eventually dies crashlanding into a dungpile the morale being that you may very well have been born in an eagles egg but that wont matter if youre brought up in a barnyard.

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