Scandinavian Studies, March 22nd, 1998
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 monograph on Hamsun's life and works (by Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach) published by Rowohlt in 1958. While Hamsun is our "Enigma" (as in the title of Robert Ferguson's biography, 1987), an offense to Norwegians--proposing a memorial to him in Oslo still provokes opposition--and to Germans, he is a ghost of ...
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