Marie Grubbe (Summarized Edition)

"Marie Grubbe" (1876) recounts the fate of a seventeenth‑century Danish noblewoman who abandons privilege for desire, descending from court pageantry to taverns, ferries, and rural obscurity. Jacobsen fuses archival realism with sensuous, impressionistic prose, using shifting focalization to chart Marie's will, defiance, and uneasy accommodation to necessity. Painterly scenes—salt marshes, candlel...