Jérôme 60° latitude nord by Maurice Bedel
Jérôme 60° latitude nord by Maurice Bedel is a novel written in the early 20th century. It blends romantic comedy with satirical travel writing as a young French dramatist journeys to Norway to stage his play and falls for a forthright Norwegian student, Uni Hansen. Expect a witty clash of ideals and realities—Nordic landscapes and sports, Parisian myths, and theatrical ambitions—filtered through a hero whose imagination outruns the world around him. The
opening of the novel follows Jérôme aboard a steamer from England, where his exuberant imagination turns every sight into legend and where he instantly falls for Uni, a cool, lively astronomy student. In Bergen he’s mobbed by journalists and miscast as a pundit on everything, then on the train to Christiania he finds Uni again and learns her cheerful companion is her brother, Axel. In the capital he becomes a minor celebrity, is whisked by Axel to meet his translator-mother, Clara Krag (a reformist, vegetarian novelist), and the good-humored Minister Krag, then confers with the theatre director about staging his play. A Sunday at Holmenkollen shows the brisk, sportive Norway of his dreams; amid playful skiing and a clumsy compliment that lands awkwardly, Jérôme’s infatuation deepens, even as a boisterous dinner with newspapermen leaves him thinking only of Uni. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bedel, Maurice, 1884-1954 |
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| Title | Jérôme 60° latitude nord |
| Original Publication | Paris: Gallimard, 1927, pubdate 1928. |
| Note | Prix Goncourt 1927. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_60%C2%B0_latitude_nord |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Dramatists -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | French -- Norway -- Fiction |
| Subject | Kristiania (Norway) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76544 |
| Release Date | Jul 21, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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