Martin A. Hansen and the problem of Danish cultural tradition
Debate about culture developed in Denmark throughout 20-th century. Polemics between «radicals» and «traditionalists» deforms an essence of Martin A. Hansen's sights for a role of national tradition in the spiritual life of Europe. The writer not only poeticizes the lost patriarchal way of life, but, after S. Kierkegaard, D.G. Chesterton and T. S. Eliot's religious searches, understands tradition as «the most revolutionary idea of the present». Nonlinear interpretation of tradition allows Hansen to combine Christian views and the modernist form in his post-war novels.