The article analyze the ideas beyond the novel “It is difficult to die in Dieppe” (1985), that is a part of the trilogy, written by Henrik Stangerup (1937-1998). Tne novel, pretends to be a biography of a famous Danish literary critic Peder Ludvig Møller (1814-1865). The existential tension in the novel is created with help of interplay between the various discourses: the biographic, the philosophical, the historic, poetic and psychological As a result the novel can be understood both as a broad cultural and historical picture of Europe in 1830-1865, as a biographical and existential study of an artist’s life, as a philosophic experiment In S. Kierkegaard’s style. Not at least is it an argument in the H. Stangerup s battle for a pan European culture, against Danish narrow national cultural tradition of the last 100 years.
