The concept of the Übermensch had disastrous consequences in that it led to two world wars, and was destroyed only with the collapse of Germany in 1945. I was prompted to do this because of the misinterpretation and distortion of Darwinism at the end of the 19th century. During half a century of literary work, I have endeavored to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. 'A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. Analyzing his own work in his autobiography for the Nobel Committee, Jensen wrote: Though he was little known outside of Denmark, he has been called 'the great linguistic innovator of the period'.

He wrote more than 100 essays, travel, and nature stories, published in eleven volumes all titled Myter ( Myths), and a three-volume fictional biography of a Danish king, Kongens Fald ( The Fall of the King). He is best known for his six-volume epic Den Lange Rejse ( The Long Journey), which spans human history from the dawn of man to the discovery of America, and is intended as an alternative to the Biblical stories of Genesis. He worked as a reporter to pay his tuition to medical school, but left school to pursue his writing career. Jensen was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seventeen times, generally acknowledged as an all-time record, before finally winning the award in 1944.

On this list of significant Danish works of art, The Fall of the King was ranked alongside works by Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Karen Blixen and others.Birthplace: Farsø, North Jutland, Denmark The Fall of the King was named best Danish novel of the 20th century by the newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, independently of each other, in 1999 and was in 2006 included in the controversial Culture Canon published by the Ministry for Culture. The third and last part opens twelve years after, at the time of the Count's Feud in 1536, and ends at Mikkel's death. Takes place twenty years later, from the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520 to the fall of the king in 1523. Summary The Death of Spring ( Foraarets Død) īegins at around 1497 and ends with the defeat of the Danish army at Dithmarschen in 1500. It tells the story of Mikkel Thøgersen and the social entanglements which bring him into the service of king Christian II of Denmark. Jensen, published in three parts from 1900 to 1901. The Fall of the King ( Danish: Kongens Fald) is a novel by Danish author Johannes V. Cover of a 1906 Swedish version of the book

Kongens fald by Johannes V. Jensen