School is a foretaste of life.
Georg Brandes Quotes
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
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Birth: | 4th February, 1842 |
Death: | 19th February, 1927 |
Nationality: | Danish |
Profession: | Critic |
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature.
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