place
Sorø Academy
Sorø
also: the Academy for the Nobility, Adels-Akademie
The aristocratic boarding academy at Sorø in Zealand to which Malte is sent after Maman's death; a loathsome, grievous time, relieved only by his solitary window-vigils and the secret letters he writes home to Abelone.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §225 the Academy for the Nobility
Sorø, the aristocratic boarding academy in Zealand; the 'loathsome and grievous time' there sharpens, by distance, Malte's growing certainty that Abelone is beautiful, and prompts the secret letters that turn out to be love-letters.