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 Hoi 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, TLS
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 the 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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