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Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen
''Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen'' (''From Christiania's Bohemia'') is a novel from 1885 by Norwegian writer Hans Jæger. The book was confiscated shortly after its publication, and Jæger was sentenced to prison and lost his position as stenographer at the Parliament. Plot "The future’s premature child," Hans Jæger had called the bohemian in the preface to his book ''Fra Kristiania–Bohemen'' (1885; ''From the Christiania Bohemia'') which described the 'bohemians' as a small group of young intellectuals and artists out of step with a society that changed from day to day as modernisation and urbanisation advanced, but which was still marked by nineteenth-century bourgeois values and moral standards. The novel is set in Christiania (Oslo), and deals with the everyday life of two friends, "Herman Ek" and "candidate Jarmann". They live in lodgings and spend their days drinking in cafés, discussing philosophy, literature and society reforms. "Jarmann" ends his life by committing su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jæger
Hans Henrik Jæger (2September 18548February 1910) was a Norwegians, Norwegian writer, philosopher and anarchist activism, activist who was part of the Bohemianism, bohemian group known as the Kristiania Bohemians. Biography Hans Henrik Jæger was born on 2 September 1854 in the Norwegian city of Drammen. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Bergen, where his father worked as a police officer. Jæger's father died when he was only 10 years old and his mother died when he was 14, forcing Jæger to move in with his uncle, , in Arendal. The following year, Jæger began a career as a sailor, which took him to French Third Republic, France and the United States. By the time he left the shipping business in 1874, he had rose through the ranks to become second mate on a packet boat. Planning to become a schoolteacher, he enrolled in the University of Oslo and began studying philosophy. To pay for his studies, he found a job as a clerk in Storting. In 1878, Jæger anonymously pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 Novels
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