This book deals with the life and works of Hans Christian Andersen, a great Danish writer, poet and fabulist, born at Odense, in 1805. In the spring of 1872 Andersen had an awkward accident, falling out of bed and severely hurting himself. He was never again quite well, but he lived till the 4th of August 1875, when he died in the house called Rolighed, near Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen: the Great Danish Author

Paul Heyse was a great German novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1910.
His father was a celebrated scholar and professor at the University; and he himself, while still a student, undertook a special tour in Italy in order to examine manuscripts in the libraries of Florence, Rome, and Venice.
Whoever casts a glance on the long row of closely printed volumes which form Paul Heyse's complete works, and remembers that the author was born in the year 1830, will first of all be apt to exclaim, "What industry!" Involuntarily he will trace back this astonishing productiveness to a will power of rare endurance. None the less, however, does it owe its origin to a singularly fortunate nature. This nature possessed within itself so luxuriant a fruitfulness that it has yielded its harvest without the least effort of the will, without any undue exertion; it has yielded a harvest of such variety that we might believe it to be fostered according to a defined plan and with a painstaking will; nevertheless, it has obviously been permitted to act with thorough independence...

Paul Heyse : the German Eminent Author

Henrik Ibsen

On s'est depuis quelque temps familiarisé avec cette idée que le but auquel il vaudrait la peine de travailler serait le bonheur : le bonheur de tous ou du plus grand nombre. On soulève rarement la question de savoir en quoi consiste le bonheur ; et pourtant on ne peut éviter de se demander si un an, un jour, une heure au paradis ne renferment pas plus de bonheur qu'une vie passée au coin du feu.

Nietzsche - Essai sur le radicalisme aristocratique

È un libro che intende, da un lato, offrire un bilancio complessivo della filosofia di Kierkegaard, da un altro, presentarne una disamina inquieta, talora dichiaratamente parziale, da una prospettiva estetica radicale e positivistica, che tuttavia resta affascinata dallo stile, dall'esistenza senza compromessi e, paradossalmente, pur contestandola, persino dall'aspra refrattaria religiosità del pensatore. Un libro leggibilissimo, insieme di analisi e di polemica, che, fissando certi duraturi paradigmi interpretativi, introduce sia a Kierkegaard sia a quella straordinaria intelligenza, insieme analitica, romantica e umorale, che fu Georg Brandes, il quale si dichiarava convinto che il « punto di vista critico » dovesse essere inevitabilmente « personale, ma il punto di vista personale mai arbitrario ».

Søren Kierkegaard - Un saggio critico complessivo

Comme le disait Henrik Ibsen, il y a eu un avant et un après Georg Brandes (1842-1927). Le critique danois est en quelque sorte le père des lettres nordiques modernes. Esprit cosmopolite et militant, il affirme que la littérature doit être liée à la réalité et susciter le débat, sous peine de perdre toute signification. Parcourant l'Europe, il a fréquenté bon nombre d'écrivains qui ont marqué le XIXe siècle. Parmi eux. Renan, qu'il a rencontré à une époque charnière de sa vie : celle qui a précédé et suivi la Guerre de 1870, période difficile et qui laissera des traces chez un penseur qui avait porté haut les valeurs de l'Allemagne. Période qui correspond également au voyage que l'auteur de la Vie de Jésus effectua en Norvège et dont le récit figure ici à la suite de l'essai de Brandes. Un essai qui apporte sa part de nouveautés aux études sur Renan et il faut voir l'étonnement de notre Scandinave devant les idées du Français sur l'éducation du peuple ou le mariage des filles, pour nous contenter de ces deux exemples, ou encore son appréciation sur le conflit franco-allemand et ses répercussions...

Ernest Renan - Suivi de : Ernest Renan : Voyage en Norvège

Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903. Beyond his fatherland Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson is known as a great poet. To Norway he is more than a poet. Not only has he written beautiful stories, songs, and dramas for his people; he lives the daily life of this people, and holds unbroken intercourse with them. He who has it in his power to create the most refined, the most delicate poetry, does not esteem himself above the rudest tasks, those of the journalist and the popular orator, where there is a question of furthering the moral and political education of the Norwegian people, by combating an error or a lie, or by ensuring the propagation of some simple, but as yet unrecognized truth. There emanates from him a breath of life. Where his spirit now penetrates there follows a development of self-knowledge and love of truth, national faults are shaken off, a growing interest is manifested in all intellectual topics, all public affairs, and a wholesome self-confidence appears side by side with this interest. He has grasped the significance of the poet's mission in its broadest sense.

Björnstjerne Björnson : the Norwegian poet and novelist

This book deals with the life and works of Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian Dramatist and Poet; with his personal and intellectual characteristics.

Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, at the little seaport of Skien, situated at the head of a long fiord on the south coast of Norway.

When, at thirty-six years of age, he left Norway to go into that exile from which he has not yet returned, it was with a heavy and embittered heart, after a youth passed on the sunless side of life.

His parents, on their paternal as well as maternal side, belonged to families of the highest standing in the town. His father was a merchant, engaged in varied and extensive activities, and enjoying the exercise of an almost unlimited hospitality. In 1836, however, the worthy gentleman was compelled to suspend payments, and from the wreck of his fortunes nothing was saved for his family but a country estate a short distance from the town. Thither they removed, and were thus carried beyond the range of the circles to which they had previously belonged. In "Peer Gynt" Ibsen has employed the recollections of his own childhood as a sort of model for his description of life in wealthy Jon Gynt's home. As a lad, Henrik Ibsen became apprentice in a drug-store. He worked his way through countless difficulties before he was able, at the age of twenty-two, to enter on a student's career; even then he had neither inclination nor means for professional study; for a long time he had not so much as the means to secure for himself regular meals. His youth was hard and stem, his daily life a straggle; the paternal roof seems to have offered him no place of refuge.

Hans Christian Andersen: the Great Danish Author

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