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...
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,...
Walter Baumgartner. Knut Hamsun. Rowohlts Monographien 543. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1997. Pp. 158. This new addition to the venerable series Rowohlts Monographien, which plays a role for German readers comparable to that of Twayne's World Authors Series in English, replaces an earlier...
Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun I FIRST READ the novels of the Norwegian Nobel Prize-winner Knut Hamsun in the halcyon days just before World War II. Those novels, especially Growth of the Soil and Hunger, have become revivified for me by Robert...
The mind plays tricks on us when we look for logic in matters of the heart. “Such are the loopholes that reality offers us from itself,” writes Grégoire Bouillier in The Mystery Guest, a perversely satisfying memoir, translated from the French by Lorin Stein. The...
The mind plays tricks on us when we look for logic in matters of the heart. “Such are the loopholes that reality offers us from itself,” writes Grégoire Bouillier in The Mystery Guest, a perversely satisfying memoir, translated from the French by Lorin Stein. The...
