Jul 17, 2009

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Knut Hamsun: Saved by Stalin?

Editor’s Note: The following article is from Euro-Synergies, July 12, 2009. It is my translation of Robert Steuckers’ translation of a June 24, 2009 item from the Flemish ’t Pallierterke website. I have altered the title and section headings.In 2009, we mark the 150th birthday of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). The Norwegian novelist, born Knut Pedersen, is, along with...

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Jul 11, 2009

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Knut Hamsun

Editor’s Note: The following sketch of Knut Hamsun’s life and work should be supplemented by Mark Deavin’s discussion here of Hamsun’s greatest book, Growth of The Soil, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature. See also Robert Ferguson’s biography Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Also noteworthy is Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and...

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Jul 11, 2009

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Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil

In 1916 Hamsun began work on what became his greatest and most idealistic novel, Growth of the Soil, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. It painted Hamsun’s ideal of a solid, farm-based culture, where human values, instead of being fixed upon transitory artificialities which modern society had deemed fashionable, would be based upon the fixed wheel of the...

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