The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Norway's greatest novelist re-examined Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter. By Ingar Sletten Kolloen. Yale University Press; 378 pages; $40 and GBP25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk KNUT HAMSUN, known as Norway’s greatest novelist, was a difficult and destructive person. He wreaked havoc with his family and his two wives and no day went by without some outburst...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In the spring of 1891, 31-year-old Knut Hamsun, penniless and hounded by debtors, embarked on a lecture tour of his native Norway. He had recently published his first successful novel, "Hunger"; now, he hoped to bolster his reputation with a...
Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Spiced Pumpkin Waffles On the top of the reading stack: Penguin Classics Growth Of The Soil by Knut Hamsun Audio Accompaniment: Hybrid by Michael Brook with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanios © Copyright Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen. For personal use only. If you are seeing this on a site other than foodandspice.blogspot.com, it is being stolen.
The Green Apple Core (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Knut Hamsun. Oh man. What can I say about Knut "Th'Newt" Hamsun? Closing in on nearly sixty years postmortem and he's probably still one of the most mind-pretzeling figures in literature to date. Hamsun walked a fine line between two strange worlds. On one hand he is hailed as a brilliant and beautiful author who believed in the mystical connection between...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The rich seams of misery and near-ruin have long been mined for literary greatness: Knut Hamsun's Hunger , Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer , Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London ... Long is the list of those who've sought out enlightenment amidst lives led below the breadline (whether through choice or necessity), using the force of will to survive and somehow prosper through the...
Gently Read Literature (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Understory, Pamela Erens, Ironweed Press Many, many years have passed since I read Knut Hamsun’s Hunger. I read it in its Latvian translation, a young writer eager to learn from the masters—and the Danish writer Hamsun was that. It was a novel about nothing, really. No car chases, no maddening mysteries, no ravishing love stories, [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The answer must be yes. In an interesting piece in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, book critic Matt Shaer remembers the case of Knut Hamsun, 1920 Nobel laureate in literature. On the strength of Hamsun's novel "Hunger," he was considered a "leading humanist."
Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... quite get to meet them first hand, as it were. All I have to compare this with is my experience of Knut Hamsun, another Norwegian novelist, who won his Nobel Prize some eight years earlier. I feel Undset lacks the wit with which Hamsun describes his characters, however miserable or reprehensible they are. Hamsun's taught paratactic style has an ease and confidence that...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... Hamas, as well as the celebrations Norway is sponsoring in honor of the 100th birthday of writer Knut Hamsun, who supported the Nazis during World War II. Of all the foreign ministers he met with in New York, Lieberman told the cabinet, this meeting was the most difficult, because "the Norwegians take a very hostile line against us.""It may be the time has come to reassess our relations...
Nordic Voices in Translation (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
At the U.N. General Assembly last week Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized Norway for, among other things, its recent commemoration of Knut Hamsun, the Jerusalem Post reports : In response, [Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr] Støre denied the allegations of anti-Semitism, explaining that the commemoration was not political in nature and that a distinction...
