Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Jacobsen& 39;s immediate importance was his status as the& 39;writer of his generation.& 39; Jacobsen& 39;s breakthrough came already in 1876 with the historical and psychological novel Fru Marie Grubbe,& 34; entitled Marie Grubbe in English,& 34;which for the first time in Danish literature presented a profound portrayal of a woman as a creature of instinct and desire and as a being searching for her own identity. The book& 39;s defiant individualism asserting human values as opposed to society& 39;s judgment was also a sign of modernity.& 34;