He is one of the first novelists to make significant use of the unreliable narrator - theme in literature. In these works he describes human fate in his home region in Jutland, He is often called a tragic and melancholic writer, but he is not without wit and humour. Much of this work is entertainment but as many as twenty or thirty pieces have been called masterpieces. From the 1820s until his death he wrote several tales that were published in local periodicals (mostly dealing with his home region), as well as historical and amateur scientific sketches. Proseīlicher is known as the pioneer of the novella in Danish. He had ten children, (seven sons and three daughters), with his wife Ernestine Juliane Berg whom he married on 11 June 1810. Many struggles with his superiors the following years led to his dismissal shortly before his death. In 1842 he was accused of alcoholism and abandoned from a Cooperation of Danish writers. His main interests were hunting and writing. After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.Īs a clergyman he is said to have been less than inspired. He grew up in close contact to nature and peasant life in the moor areas of Jutland. Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther.
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