Gedanken zum Sexualitatsproblem

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Published posthumously, the work was published in German as the Danish poet's executor would not allow publication in Denmark. Pages unopened. Herman Joachim Bang (April 20, 1857 in Asserballe, Schleswig - January 29, 1912 in Ogden, Utah) was a Danish writer and one of the men of the Modern Break-Through. Bang was born of a noble family on the small Danish island of Als, the son of a South Jutlandic vicar (a relative of Grundtvig), but his family history was struck by insanity and diseases. When he was twenty he published two volumes of critical essays on the realistic movement. In 1880 he published his novel Haabløse Slægter (Families without hope), which at once aroused attention. The main character was a young man who had a relationship with an older woman. The book was considered pornographic at the time and was banned. After some time spent in travel and a successful lecturing tour in Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen, and produced a series of novels and collections of short stories, which placed him in the front rank of Scandinavian novelists. Among his more famous stories are Faedra (1883) and Tine (1889). Bang was a homosexual, a fact which partly isolated him in Danish cultural life and made him the victim of smear campaigns. He lived most of his life with his sister but found happiness for a few years with the Hungarian actor Max Eisfeld with whom he lived in Prague 1885-86. His lacking interest in politics also removed him from most of his colleagues of the naturalist movement. His first book Haabløse Slægter (1880) was confiscated by the Danish police which found the story of the life of a young man in Danish fin de siècle society immoral. Rare.