After his next journey in 1928, Jensen continued writing The Stages of Mind (Aandens Stadier).īy this time Jensen was widely recognized as a prominent author, and in 1929 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in Swden.īefore World War II, Jensen visited the United States again, but the outbreak of the war prevented his planned travel to France. He reflected on the journey two books: the Light of the World (Verdens Lys) and The Transformation of the Animals (Dyrenes Forvandling), presenting a development of evolutionary theories. This time he went to Berlin, Egypt, and Palestine, regularly sending letters to the newspaper Social-Demokraten. During the years of World War I, he focused on writing the Long Journey.Īnother voyage Jensen undertook started in 1925. In 1912 Jensen started on his second great journey, traveling to Berlin, Colombo, Singapore, Peking, Manchuria, and returning home through Siberia. The epic was published from 1908 to 1922 and demostrates Jensen's poetic skills. In 1908 there appeared the first volume of Jensen's great epic in six volumes, the Long Journey (Den Lange Reise), in which he portrayes the rise of man from the primitive times to the discovery of America by Columbus.

The year 1906 was decisive for Jensen:he embarked on writing about the problems concerning the theory of evolution. The translation was published in Denmark in the same year. In October 1906 after travelling to New York, he started translating American novelist Frank Noriss's novel the Octopus. The novel The Wheel (Hjulet) and a collection of poems appeared in 1905.Īlso in 1905 he renewed his collaboration with the publication Politiken. In 1904 he published the novel Madame d'Ora, a collection of stories, New Himmerland Stories (Nye Himmerlandshistorier), and the travelogue The Woods. Jensen developed a taste for travel and a longing for foreign places, and in 1902 he left for Singapore, from where he went to Malaysia, Shanghai, Japan, and then, crossing the Pacific, to san Francisco, Chicago, New York, returning to Denmark in 1903. In 1898 Jensen went to Spain and Germany as a correspondent, and in 1900 he attended the World's fair in Paris. He wrote romantic stories and turned out a series of detective novels that were published in a weekly periodical under the pseudonym 'Ivar Lykke. Jensen's early output also included genre fiction. Like much of his early writings, these works were set in his native province of Himmerland. While still attending the University of Copenhagen, Jensen managed to write two novels: Danskere (1896) and Einar Elkjær (1898).

Kongens fald by Johannes V. Jensen