Madelung, AageMareMagnum
IN'M GROYSEN TUMEL: ROMAN
Original Boards. 8vo. 188 pages. 22 cm. First Yiddish edition. Inm Groysen Tumel (In a Great Upheaval) , Yiddish translation of Aage Madelungs Love One Another, a novel about the attempted Russian revolution of 1905; published in Warsaw by A. Gitlin. Aage Madelung (1872-1949) was a recognized and acclaimed Danish writer of his time. He was particularly known for Elsker Hverandre (Love One Another) from 1913, a novel which became an international bestseller and caught the attention of Knut Hamsun, as well as being adapted to film by Carl Th. Dreyer in 1922. The son of Danish parents, who were immigrants from Germany and Norway, Madelung grew up in Sweden and spent 17 years in Russia, working as a salesman, reporting as a correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt on the Eastern Front during World War I and joining the modernist milieu around the literary journal Vesy, to which he contributed texts in Russian, including a review of Herman Bangs Mikäel. He also spent long periods in various other Central and Eastern European countries, before he finally settled in Denmark in the 1920s with his Russian-Jewish wife. (Morten Egholm, Aage Madelung: Elsker Hverandre) . Bound in purple boards with inlay gilt title. Subjects: Danish fiction - Translations into Yiddish. Yiddish fiction - Translations from Danish. OCLC lists 8 copies. Binding repaired, pages aged, first and last pages brown at edges, endpages have minor pencil marks and sketches, otherwise clean. Good- condition. (YID-18-25)
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