The novels of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) introduced a new style and concept of character into European literature. He received the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature. Knut Hamsun was born on Aug. 4, 1859, in Lom (Gudbrandsdal). When he was...
Knut Hamsun is Norway's best-known novelist and one of the major world writers of modern times. He is commonly ranked immediately below the four great names of Scandinavian literature: Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, and...
Hunger (Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century...
Anita Brookner is known for her depictions of exiled Polish Jews in England and particularly for her portrayal of women trapped in patriarchal systems of relationships which they cannot escape. Thus, her heroines partake of tragedy by their inability to take control of their...
* Martin Humpal. The Roots of Modernist Narrative: Knut Hamsun's Novels Hunger, Mysteries, and Pan. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1998. Pp. 167. Although Knut Hamsun's contribution to modernism has generally been acknowledged by critics, most of the attention has been focussed on his use...
A long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay gained several participants in recent weeks amid complaints over conditions at a new unit of the prison, but a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday that the protest appeared to be losing steam.All were being force-fed...
The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has more than doubled in recent weeks to 11, including five who are being force-fed, the U.S. military said Monday.Military officials describe the hunger strike as an attempt to build public sympathy and opposition...
In the following essay, Riechel studies two of Hamsun's early novels, noting that the narrative effects in both Hunger and Mysteries are achieved from a combination of ambiguity, irony, and self-contradiction.
In the following essay, Sandberg proposes that although Hunger is often regarded as a subjective novel of private literary expression, it is equally valid as a text that links itself, via its language, to the public world of news, economics, and advertising.
On December 9, 1992, U.S. Marines began landing in Somalia to help provide food relief to a population in the throes of famine. While the Somalia mission— Operation Restore Hope—was criticized for a variety of reasons, few could object to...
