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Knut Hamsun books, Hunger, Mysteries, Pan, Rosa, Victoria

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Hunger by Knut Hamsun / Robert Bly (Translator)

Synopsis for Hunger;
Contemptuous of contemporary novels and what he saw as stereotypical plots
and empty characters, in 1890 Knut Hamsun wrote "Hunger", which is a 
searing excursion into the realm of the irrational. In a moment-by-moment 
internal monologue, Hamsun reveals the profound anguish of a struggling 
writer facing the possibility of death in a world indifferent to his 
existence

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Pan Knut Hamsun

First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's PAN recounts Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. PAN provides a lyrical, yet disturbing, analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche.

Mysteries Knut Hamsun

Book Description
This haunting and compelling novel is among the half-dozen greatest novels of the twentieth century. A strange young man spends a summer in a Norwegian coastal town and acts as the catalyst for all the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the local people. He has the gift of merciless insight into the human soul but that cannot prevent his own self-destruction. Knut Hamsun's novel, first published in 1892, is astonishingly contemporary - with its concern for individual freedom and a entirely modern psychological awareness.

Knut Hamsun on language
"Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness. A word can be transformed into a colour, light, a smell. It is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored. The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words. He must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too."

About the Author
Knut Hamsun was born in 1859 in Norway and after a period of travel he published his first successful novel, Hunger, in 1890. It became a sensation and as Isaac Bashevis Singer commented "the whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920 and died in 1952.

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Some Knut Hamsun books; Dreamers, Growth of the Soil, On Overgrown Paths, Hunger, Mysteries, Night Roamers and Other Stories, Pan, Rosa, Tales of Love and Loss, Under the Autumn Star, Victoria, Wayfarers, The Women at the Pump

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