Born in Copenhagen and educated in England and America, Morten Høi Jensen has contributed to numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and the New Republic.
“Morten Høi Jensen’s sensitive, wide-ranging study aims at
providing readers today with . . . a chance to look beyond the
early, painful, meaningless death that stole so much of Jacobsen’s
energy and time to the achingly beautiful works he created.”—Julie
K. Allen, Times Literary Supplement
Winner of the 2017 J. P. Jacobsen Award from the Limfjord Region’s
Literary Society in Thisted
“Morten Høi Jensen . . . brilliantly restores Jens Peter Jacobsen
to a place in modern world fiction that should never have been
vacated. This is one of the most elegant and incisive critical
biographies I’ve read.”—James Wood
“Before I read Morten Høi Jensen’s A Difficult Death, Jens Peter
Jacobsen was just a name I vaguely recalled from Rilke. But now
he’s become, among other things, an intellectual hero. This book
beautifully conjures he person, skillfully creates the world, and
thoroughly explains the work—it’s as exemplary as literary
biographies get. I’ve long regarded Jensen as one of the best young
critics writing today, and A Difficult Death proves it.”—Tom
Bissell, author of Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the
Twelve
“J. P. Jacobsen’s work was ground-breaking, influential, and of
rare perfection. Jensen’s is a deeply sympathetic and
intellectually informed presentation of Jacobsen’s tragically short
life, enigmatic personality and imaginatively challenging writings.
This limpid and incisive book is commendably thoughtful.”—Paul
Binding, author of Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness
“Offering a wonderful sense of intimacy with the life and works of
Jens Peter Jacobsen, this book also wrestles with the difficult
giants in the wings: Rilke, Strindberg, Ibsen and the brothers
Brandes. A beguiling view of a rich literary landscape.”—Mikka
Haugaard, translator of Marie Grubbe
“Jens Peter Jacobsen will be a marvelous discovery for many
readers. Jensen introduces his life struggles and literary
achievements with empathy, precision and an infectious awareness of
why Jacobsen’s agon with faith and faithlessness remains
timely.”—George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan
Zweig at the End of the World
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