Topic: Knut Hamsun
Concerning hunger in Knut Hamsun's Hunger In Knut Hamsun's Hunger, the role of hunger mirrors the rejection the narrator receives towards his writing. The book documents the period of Hamsun's life where he could not make enough money through ...
It is not uncommon for a writer to become more known for his reputation than actual work. The Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun was well known in his day, for he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920 after having published Growth ...
The literature of Norway, apart from Denmark, does not really begin until the nineteenth century. After 1814, when the political separation from Denmark was made, the demand for an independent Norwegian literature became insistent.For many years, it took the unfortunate form ...
A Hamsun cocktail is a scotch whiskey-based drink named after the famous German writer Knut Hamsun. The Hamsun has a bold, somewhat bitter taste with just a hint of sweetness that scotch purists should appreciate. The Hamsun is usually served in a ...
It seems we want to make the various modernisms 'mean something', says Jameson, 'preferably something ahistorical and relatively transcultural'.1 This inclination is manifest, albeit in very different ways, in these three new studies of Scandinavian modernism by Toril Moi, Sverre Lyngstad ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has reproached Norway for commemorating its Nobel Prize winning novelist Knut Hamsun who sympathised with the Nazis, a newspaper reported on Monday. "I was shocked to discover that the Norwegian government had decided to celebrate the 150th ...
The article reviews the book " " The quote from Sigrid Combuchen's biographical study of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun both does and does not apply to her wonderfully readable book. Hers is not the chrono- logical, quote-laden, source-check- ing and footnoted approach to ...
The article reviews the book " " The quote from Sigrid Combuchen's biographical study of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun both does and does not apply to her wonderfully readable book. Hers is not the chrono- logical, quote-laden, source-check- ing and footnoted approach to ...
Museum opens for Norwegian Nobel laureate writer and Nazi sympathizerCrown Princess Mette-Marit has opened Norway's first museum dedicated to Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun, whose literary talent was overshadowed by his later Nazi sympathies.More than 5,000 visitors attended the ceremony ...
A leader of the Neoromantic revolt at the turn of the century, he rescued the novel from a tendency toward excessive naturalism.. He started to write at age 19, when he was a shoemaker's apprentice in Bodo, in northern Norway. His ...
