by Per Olov Enquist · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099447054
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«The Visit of the Royal Physician» is the historical novel by Per Olov Enquist, published by Vintage in paperback (408 pages, in English).
Denmark, 1760s: the young king Christian VII, mentally fragile, is at the center of a power struggle at court. His physician, the reformer Struensee, introduces Enlightenment ideas, while Guldberg, a religious fanatic, wants to crush them; at stake is control of the king and the country. Queen Caroline Mathilde joins the plot. Enquist explores political ambition, betrayal and the clash between science and religion with historical figures such as Voltaire, Diderot, Catherine the Great and George III.
Translated from Swedish into English by Tiina Nunnally. Originally published in 1999 and winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and eighteenth-century European court drama.
Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author. He worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.
