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| Author | Johannes V. Jensen |
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| Original title | Den Lange Rejse |
| Translator | Arthur G. Chater (1st English edition) |
| Language | Danish |
| Series | The Long Journey |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1908–1922 |
| Publication place | Denmark |
Published in English | 1923 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
The Long Journey (Danish: Den Lange Rejse) is a series of six novels by Danish author and poet Johannes V. Jensen, appearing between 1908 and 1922.[1] The books deal with the author's theories on evolution, backdropped against a description of humanity from pre-Ice Age up to the voyage of Christopher Columbus. The work is fictional, weaving in Jensen's stylistic mythic prose with his personal views on Darwinian evolutionary theory. It was primarily for this work that Jensen received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1944.[2]
There are three editions of the text; first, the original six-volume Danish novels; secondly, a three-volume English edition, translated by Arthur G. Chater, published during 1923–1924; and finally, a two-volume edition published in 1938. Under the three volume English edition, books one and two fall under the title Fire and Ice, while books three and four are called The Cimbrians. The final two books were published under the title Christopher Columbus.
- ^ Sven Hakon Rossel (2006). Bruccoli Clark (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 330: Nobel-Prize Laureates in Literature Part 2. Gale. pp. 385–404. ISBN 978-0787681487.
- ^ The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present 1438108362 Michael Sollars, Arbolina Llamas Jennings – 2008 "In 1908 there appeared the first volume of Jensen's great epic in six volumes, The Long Journey (Den Lange Reise), in which he portrays the rise of man ... One of the leitmotifs of the novel becomes the longing of the northerner for the lost land and eternal happiness. ... In 1944 Jensen received the Nobel Prize in literature ...