| Title: | Traces of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy in Scandinavian Literature |
| Author: | Crina Leon |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 159-167 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | In the present paper we point out similarities between Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy and the work of some of the most important representatives of Scandinavian literature at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century: August Strindberg and Knut Hamsun. In a critical period in the development of Scandinavian literature, Nietzsche’s philosophy reached the peninsula when naturalism was about to come to an end, due to the Danish critic Georg Brandes, who in 1888 delivered a series of 5 lectures about the German philosopher at the University of Copenhagen and to his 1889 Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism. Ideas related to the Superman, irrationality, will to power, individualism, which characterize Nietzsche’s philosophical thinking, can also be traced in Scandinavian literature, even though a direct Nietzschean influence may be debatable. |
| Key words: | Scandinavian literature, Nietzschean philosophy, Georg Brandes, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun |
| Language: | English |
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