Morten Korch - den mest solgte forfatter Traditional Cache
Morten Korch - den mest solgte forfatter
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Egentlig kunne der laves mange caches over Morten Korch i det fynske: Han er født her (Over Holluf d. 17. jan. 1876), han er begravet her (på Fraugde Kirkegård (død i Hellerup d.8. oktober 1954)), og han har en lille plads i det indre Odense opkaldt efter sig. Morten Korch var godt nok sin tids mest solgte forfatter og modtog endda ridderkorset (1937) for sit virke, men han delte vandene. I litterære kredse hvor man mente at litteratur skal rykke noget og påvise problemer i samfundet, så disse kan komme til debat, mente man at Morten Korchs bøger pegede bagud til en bondekultur der hørte et andet århundrede til. Forfatterskabet udtrykte et konservativt, patriarkalsk og kristent livssyn hvor Danmark var et klassesamfund med faste kønsroller (statisk). Denne opfattelse var i nogen grad rigtig, men faktisk var Morten Korchs første romaner samfundskritiske (bl.a. ”Guldglasuren” (1912)). Men romantisk nostalgi over livet på landet, hvor en ædel helt kæmper mod kapitalistiske skurke for at bevare det gamle (slægtens besiddelser), var (er) det der solgte, det folk ville læse. Morten Korch far var skolelærer. Han var den 5. af 8 børn i hjemmet i Over Holluf. 16 år gammel kom han i købmandslære i Nyborg og blev handelsuddannet. I perioden 1903-1909 var han medejer af Wilh. Løngrens Fabrikker. Fra 1909-1912 blev han selvstændig teglværksdirektør på Dansk Keramik- og Flisefabrik. Siden blev han forlægger, og først omkring 1916 begyndte han for alvor at skrive bøger selv. 123 værker blev det til. De handlede om det præindustrielle Danmark, de miljøer han kendte: købmandsgårde, gammeldags landbrug og småindustri. Plot drejede sig oftest om at den gamle ro blev forstyrret af udefrakommende uro. Personskildringen er relativ flad: en helt er en helt, en sød pige en sød pige og skurken en skurk, vi er ikke i tvivl om hvem der er hvem. Det gode(gamle) kæmper mod det onde (nye), og det gode vinder til sidst, og det hele ender lykkeligt. Li´ ham eller ej. Find cachen. English version: You could make several caches concerning Morten Korch, the writer, as he is both born (Over Holluf, 1876) and buried (Fraugde Churchyard, 1954) in Funen. In Odense he has a small square named after him. Morten Korch was the most sold writer of his time and even received a Knight´s Cross for his work, but not all were impressed by the themes and quality of his works. In literary circles they thought that real literature ought to bring up problems for discussions. Morten Korch´s books did not point forward, but backwards as they took place in a rural setting and represented a way of life of the last century. The body of his work expresses a conservative, patriarchal, Christian attitude to life. In his books Denmark is a static class society with fixed sex roles. Morten Korch did in fact write a few novels that were critical to society (his first), but romantic nostalgia of the life in the countryside where the noble protagonist was fighting sinister antagonists that were trying to take over the possessions of his stock had more readers and sold better. Morten Korch was the fifth of eight children. His father was a schoolteacher . 16 years old he got commercial training as a grocer at Nyborg. From 1903 to 1909 he was joint owner of a factory, then he owned a pottery factory. Later he became a publisher. He did not write anything of importance until 1916. He wrote 123 books. They took place in a preindustrial Denmark, the settings he knew: peasant culture. His description of characters is rather flat: A hero is a hero, a nice girl a nice girl and a scoundrel a scoundrel, we have no problem seeing who is bad and who is not. Good is fighting evil, good wins, and they live happily ever after. Like him or not. Find the cache.
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