Frank Jæger was one of the most influential and widely read Danish writers of the immediate post-World War II era. After establishing his reputation as a poet, Jæger turned to prose and drama as well, in which genres he also showed himself to be a writer of considerable talent, but for which he rarely received the critical praise that was accorded his poetry. Jæger is, in fact, one of the premier prose writers of the mid twentieth century; several of his stories belong to the most memorable and distinctive that appeared in Denmark in the two decades after World War II. Jæger's forte lay in the shorter prose form; only a handful of his works of fiction surpass seventy printed pages. His essays, fewer in number than his poems or stories, are also among the most accessible of the 1950s...