Skandynawski innowator Trzy powieści norweskiego Noblisty są obowiązkową lekturą dla miłośników literatury skandynawskiej. Hamsun był prekursorem modernizmu i prozy psychologicznej, właśnie od niego uczono się technik strumienia świadomości i monologu wewnętrznego. Jego proza to przede wszystkim charyzmatyczne, targane namiętnościami postaci oraz bezwzględna, zimna natura. Telegrafista Ronaldsen z Marzycieli jest szalonym, impulsywnym wynalazcą, który ...

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) - norweski pisarz, laureat nagrody Nobla za 1920 rok, łączył neoromantyzm z egzystencjalizmem, ale też elementami realizmu przedstawiciel tzw nurtu subiektywistycznego w literaturze skandynawskiej, odwoływał się do Dostojewskiego, mocno wpłynął na tworczość takich pisarzy jak Franz Kafka. Nienawiść do świata anglosaskiego (np w satyrze "Z życia duchowego współczesnej Ameryki") a z drugiej strony jego patriarchalizm i biologizm zbliżyły ...

Knut Hamsun właść. Knut Pedersen(1859-1952) - norweski pisarz, laureat nagrody Nobla za 1920 rok, łączył neoromantyzm z egzystencjalizmem, ale też elementami realizmu przedstawiciel tzw nurtu subiektywistycznego w literaturze skandynawskiej, odwoływał się do Dostojewskiego, mocno wpłynął na twórczość takich pisarzy jak Franz Kafka. Nienawiść do świata anglosaskiego (np w satyrze "Z życia duchowego współczesnej Ameryki") a z drugiej strony jego ...

Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian author who received the Noble Prize for Literature for his novel Growth of the Soil in 1920. Hamsun's writing makes excellent use of symbolism. Hamsun saw man and nature united in a strong bond that could almost be considered mystical. The Wanderers consists of two novels published together which both have an autobiographical element. The Sequel entitled The Last Joy is the third book in this autobiographical group. The central figure of Knut Pedersen lives in the Northlands and through his vision the fates of Captain ...

Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian author who received the Noble Prize for Literature for his novel Growth of the Soil in 1920. Hamsun's writing makes excellent use of symbolism. Hamsun saw man and nature united in a strong bond that could almost be considered mystical. Look Back on Happiness begins, "I have gone to the forest...... Not because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men's evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all. I have not gone this time as a slave and a vagabond. I have money enough ...

Knut Hamsun believed that modern literature should express the complexity of the human mind and nowhere is that philosophy more evident than in this stunning modern masterpiece, “Hunger.” First published in 1890 in Norwegian and based on Hamsun’s own experiences with poverty prior to his success as an author, “Hunger” tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway’s capital city of Kristiania (now Oslo) looking for food. This starving young man attempts to create an outward illusion of ...

Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian author who received the Noble Prize for Literature for Growth of the Soil in 1920. Hamsun writing makes excellent use of symbolism. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W Worster in his footnote in December 1920 "Jt is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands.It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant ...

Knut Hamsun believed that modern literature should express the complexity of the human mind, nowhere is that philosophy more evident than in this stunning modern masterpiece, "Hunger". It tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway's capital looking for food. Hamsun creates a stunning portrait of poverty and a biting social commentary on modern urban life. We follow the vagrant in the story around the town and discover the true depths of his hunger. Hamsun is at his best in this classic of modern literature.

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The Growth of the Soil is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.