Pelle Erobreren 2: Læreaar by Martin Andersen Nexø
"Pelle Erobreren 2: Læreaar" by Martin Andersen Nexø is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the country boy Pelle as he leaves the farm for a provincial town, becomes a shoemaker’s apprentice, and wrestles with hardship, humiliation, and hope in a world of masters, journeymen, and city crowds. Themes of migration, class, and coming‑of‑age thread through his encounters with fellow workers, his ailing but spirited master, and the
pull of his bond with his father. At the start of the novel, Pelle trudges toward town on a spring day and, by chance, is carried along by old Klavs Herman to shoemaker Jeppe Kofod’s shop, where he is promptly bound to an apprenticeship and subjected to a cruel initiation with hot pitch and pranks. Overwhelmed by the city’s bustle and his new status, he briefly runs away by night to the Stengaard farm, searching for his father Lasse, only to learn from Karna that Lasse has left to look for a smallholding; he returns to town at dawn. The opening then follows his errands with the journeyman Nikas, glimpses of street life—the ranting clockmaker, funeral talk with the charitable tailor Bjerregrav—and his failed first attempts to win over the town boys, who mock him as a “bonde.” Through it all, he begins to form a quiet bond with the kind but sickly Unge Mester Andrés, and resolves to adapt and push forward despite the pain and loneliness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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