This was a pretty dry and academic biography, but nonetheless accessible and definitely interesting. I’d never heard of Jens Peter Jacobsen, a Danish writer acclaimed in his time and admired by other writers such as James Joyce, Strindberg and Thomas Mann as well as many others, but little known or heard of today. His works are explored in some detail in the biography, which slows down the narrative if you’re not familiar with his writings, as having a plot described is never as satisfying as reading the actual book, but I very much enjoyed learning about this forgotten writer and feel enthused enough to read something by him in due course.