Barbara

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  Barbara, written originally in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-38), and yet it quickly achieved international best-seller status is still one of the best-loved twentieth-century clñassics in Danish and Faroese literature. On the face of it, Barbara is a ... (continue)

  Barbara, written originally in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-38), and yet it quickly achieved international best-seller status is still one of the best-loved twentieth-century clñassics in Danish and Faroese literature. On the face of it, Barbara is a straightforward historical novel in the mode of many a so-called romance. It contains a story of passion in an exotic setting with overstones of semi-piracy; there is a powerful erotic element, an outsider who breaks up a marriage, and built-in inevitability resulting from Barbara´s own psychological make-up. She stands as one of the most complex female characters in modern Scandinavian literature: beautiful, passionate, innocent, devoted, amoral and uncomprehending of her own tragedy, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen portrays her with fascinated devotion.

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• ISBN-10: 1870041224
• ISBN-13: 9781870041225

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