MARTIN HANSEN—NYRB Author—The Liar—1954—1st UK Hardcover

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First UK Edition HARDCOVER of: • “THE LIAR: A NOVEL” (J. M. DENT & SONS, 1954) (HARDCOVER, First UK Edition, First Printing) • BY MARTIN HANSEN • TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH BY J. J. EGGLISHAW • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, THE LIAR tells the story of JOHANNES LYE, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off the coast of Denmark, a place that in winter is entirely cut off from the world at large by ice. It is winter when the book begins, and for years now JOHANNES has lived alone, even as he nurses a secret passion for ANNEMARI, a former pupil. ANNEMARI is engaged to a local man, OLAF, who has left the island but is due to return come spring. She is also being courted by a young engineer from the mainland. Such are the chief players in a compact drama, recorded in JOHANNES’s ironic, self-lacerating, and anything but reliable diary. “MARTIN A. HANSEN’s novel beautifully evokes the stark landscape of Sand Island and the immemorial circuit of the seasons as well as the mysterious passage of time in the human heart, all the while proceeding to a supremely suspenseful conclusion.” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS • “A great work of art…. There is a palpable unease in every sentence.” —TOM KRISTENSEN, “HAVOC”• “Sometimes [JOHANNES LYE’s] jottings have a sour, dyspeptic flavour; often they are lyrical, wry, and downright sarcastic. Consequently, you cannot help but stick with LYE, with his strange magnetic voice…. LARKIN provides a fine translation so that the narrative never fades or stalls.” —NJ MCGARRIGLE, THE IRISH TIMES • “There is a sense of measured urgency in [THE LIAR], which carries you along as you read, and makes you unwilling to put the book down before you have finished, before you have learned whether JOHANNES sees his first woodcock of the season and achieves his love’s desire, and which of her two loves ANNEMARI finally chooses—before you learn, in fact, the final direction of all these vivid lives which inform and make absorbing each page of the book.” —SYDNEY MORNING HERALD• “THE LIAR is a haunting story with one unreliable, progressively disturbing, first-person narration set on one isolated Danish island, and is a towering achievement….” —THOUGHTS ON PAPYRUS (BLOG) • “[THE LIAR] is a book that will lead readers to marvel at how intricate storytelling and human life can be, and how subtly their intricacies can be linked…. The novel is composed of notes by JOHANNES LYE, a schoolteacher and parish clerk—and also, as his name suggests, the narrative’s Liar—who interacts with NATHAN, an honest Biblical NATHANAEL…. Although a non-believer, JOHANNES believes in a kind of uncompromising youth that demands ‘purity and truth.’ Part of his duplicity involves indulgence in ‘passionate certainties,’ while also being ‘death’s great confidant,’ ‘flung from deeply enriching, coruscating moments to dark meaninglessness and despair. Only to be flung back again.’ Conversely, an older person is ‘blind to life’s greatest contradictions,’ full of ‘small deceits and minor untruths,’ yet of ‘good conscience because he has become blind to the fact he’s a liar.’ Embracing the role of street performer, JOHANNES faces a congregation of doubters and believers to whom he is a stranger; as this community gathers, he senses himself as ‘nothing,’ ‘a divided self,’ ‘a double’—all the while trolling his ‘ghostly pale specters’ to lure them into his traps. Feigning to serve the DIVINE, he instead helps THE DEVIL bewitch the faithful.” —POUL HOUE, RAIN TAXI REVIEW • • For more details, please see below. • TITLE: “THE LIAR: A Novel” AUTHUR: MARTIN HANSEN TRANSLATOR: J. J. EGGLISHAW TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. (London), 1954 EDITION: First UK Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First published 1954”—with no later printings listed. PAGES: 204ISBN: N/A (Pre—ISBN) NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS. DJ is lightly age-toned but still clean & bright. Price (IIs., 6d.) is uncut. Corners & spine tips are chipped. There are few small cuts along the top edge; otherwise edges are just lightly worn. (Now protected in a Brodart cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is firm with a slight slant. Coverboards are bright & clean. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Text-block edges are moderately age-toned. There’s a small vintage bookstore sticker on the bottom of the inside cover. Pages are lightly age-toned but also clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. 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End Time: 2024-12-17T19:10:23.000Z

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