Lucky Per is the New Greatest Story Ever Told
The novel is a soul-searcher’s guide to the Joyful Galaxy of One.
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13 min readMar 7, 2020
One is tempted to label Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per as a novel akin to Homer’s Odyssey, a modern-day hero’s journey. Certainly there is that parallel arc in the obstacle-strewn journeys of Per, the Danish protagonist, and Odysseus. However, it is the eventual homecoming that…
