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Herman Bang - Unpublished manuscripts
Collection of autograph manuscripts with autograph
corrections by Herman Bang including 25
autograph manuscript leaves written by Herman
Bang in minute hand, all numbered. Various sizes.
[1886] + 13 autograph manuscripts for unpublished
poems by Herman Bang. Dated 1899-1901.
21 pages.
This important collection of unpublished autograph
manuscripts by Herman Bang includes 25 autograph
manuscript leaves. The manuscript describes characters
(e.g. Bernhard Hoff) and scenes that indicate that
the leaves are fragments of a very early and hitherto
unknown version of Herman Bang's principal work
"Stuk" (1887), which Bang wrote from October 1886
until September 1887.
During his writing of "Stuk" Bang had several difficulties
with his publisher Andreas Schou who did not
aprove of the early versions of the novel. Especially
the first couple of chapters were problematic and
were later harshly edited by Schou. Bang had written
the first two chapters of the novel, whose work title
at this point was "Bernhard Hoff", in December 1886.
But material from this early stage has hitherto been
considered lost (this process is described in detail by F.
Conrad in "Omkring Stuk", Hårsløf, p. 16­34).
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However the manuscript leaves here presented describe
several scenes from the final edition of "Stuk"
in a similar, but recognizable form. Also the manuscript's
title character, Bernhard Hoff, who Bang later
renamed Herluf Berg ­ Herman Bang's alter ego ­ is
described. In December 1886 Bang wrote to his other
publisher Poul Schubothe Langhoff (who took over
the publishing of "Stuk" from Schou in the spring
of 1887): "Bernh. Hoff faar et andet Navn og Bogen
kaldes Stuk". The manuscript leaves were therefore
written as early as the fall of 1886 and make out the
hitherto earliest known version of Herman Bang's
novel "Stuk".
The manuscript leaves all have different sizes and
have all been cut out of larger leaves. When Bang
edited his own works of fiction, he would cut out
good parts from earlier versions in order to save himself
the trouble of writing everything twice (Hårsløf,
p. 16), thus the manuscript also documents Bang's
creative process.
Provenance: Descendants of the Hirschsprung family.
€ 2.000­2.700 15.000­20.000
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