Abundance (novel)

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Abundance (original title Dryss ) is an early novel by the Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø from 1902 .

action

In Copenhagen at the turn of the 20th century, the teacher training candidate Karl Bauder feels neglected by life “to the point of abundance”. He sees himself as branded, as condemned to senseless death and behaves as a misanthrope who only perceives his fellow men as rabble . Therefore, Bauder flees from the well-protected parental home from the Danish metropolis to the remote coast.

classification

This early novel by the author stands out with its thematic focuses, such as B. sexuality or alcohol addiction , in the naturalistic tradition, but goes beyond this in its sarcastic and ironic denunciation of the hypocrisy and vice of the bourgeoisie .

expenditure

  • Martin Andersen Nexø: Abundance . Translated by Hermann Kiy. Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-499-40025-4 .
    • (New edition of the first edition in German, Langen , Munich 1914; licensed edition by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar.)