Knut Hamsun Center
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Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter, By Ingar Sletten Kolloen
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Nobel Prize-winning novelists are often thought sagacious, unfazed by salt mines or subordinate clauses. Picture, however, the 50-year-old Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun at work in 1909 in a house with the woman, Marie, who would soon become his second wife. Some words were slowly emerging from the paper that he crumpled up and hurled towards the bin.
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Knut Hamsun: Terrible man, celebrated writer
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...
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the knut
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...
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My Favourite Fascist Writer
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Who is your favourite fascist novelist? I quite like the work of the madly eccentric French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, particularly Journey to the End of the Night , but my absolute favourite really has to be Knut Hamsun, the great Norwegian writer and Nobel laureate. My, oh, my, how could one possibly like fascist writing? But that’s just the point: it’s not...
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Correction: Ingar Sletten Kolloen
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In our recent review of “Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter” (November 7th) we referred to Ingar Sletten Kolloen as Ms Kolloen. He is, of course, Mr Kolloen. Our apologies. This has been corrected online. ...
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Correction: Ingar Sletten Kolloen
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In our recent review of “Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter” (November 7th) we referred to Ingar Sletten Kolloen as Ms Kolloen. He is, of course, Mr Kolloen. Our apologies. This has been corrected online. ...
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Donald Barthelme's recommended reading
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A syllabus compiled by American author Donald Barthelme comprised of 81 books. If the list's books are skewed toward Barthelme's particular obsessions -- one of the entries is "Beckett entire" -- this is only to its credit. Most are novels. All but two of the books, Knut Hamsun's Hunger and Flaubert's Letters (numbers 15, 40), were written in the twentieth century, most in the...
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"Th'Newt"
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...
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Pumpkin Cheesecake
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.
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Stations of the Cross
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...
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DISTILLED INTO EFFERVESCENT PURITY: Zinta Aistars on Pamela Erens’ The Understory
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, [...]
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Can you love a book, yet revile its author?
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."