Knut Hamsun - Böcker

Svält¿ av Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) skildrar en namnlös ung mans alltmer desperata ansträngningar med att försöka försörja sig som författare i staden Kristiania. Han är fast i en värld som både är ovetande om och struntar i hans existens. Genom Ham...

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»Den moderna prosans fader.« | ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER »Hamsuns genombrottsroman Svält från 1890 är än i dag lika drabbande som en blixt från blå himmel. Nu finns originalversionen i en glimrande svensk översättning av Henrik Petersen.« | MIKAEL VAN...

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I slutet av 1800-talet vandrar en bonde runt i den norska vildmarken på jakt efter en passande plats att slå sig ned och dyrka jorden. Isak heter mannen, och till slut hittar han en bra plats. De kommande åren förflyter med oändligt hårt arbete; s...

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Svält , som bygger på Hamsuns egna erfarenheter, beskriver en spirande författares sorgliga livsförhållanden, när han driver runt i Christiania och konstant kämpar för att skaffa sig det mest nödvändiga för att kunna hålla sig vid liv. Ofta får ha...

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'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century...

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En ung man med ont om pengar befinner sig i Kristiania. Hans ambition är att bli författare och att få ett stort genombrott. Men bristen på pengar gör att han ofta inte har råd att köpa mat, och ju mer utsvulten han blir, desto mer tappar han grep...

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»Aldrig har någon varit mer förtjänt av Nobelpriset.« | Thomas Mann »Den moderna prosans fader.« | Isaac Bashevis Singer Sommaren 1888 anländer Knut Hamsun till Köpenhamn, dåtidens kulturcentrum i Norden. Desillusionerad - euforisk - river han man...

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'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a...

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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,...

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'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a...

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'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a...

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'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a w...

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'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a w...

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'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a w...

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The Ring is Closed combines a central character as iconoclastic as that of Hunger with an evocation of the limitations of small-town life to equal Mysteries. Abel is the only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper, after falling in love he leaves his ...

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Twenty stories ranging over every imaginable human emotion and situation, Tales of Love and Loss is a treat for all lovers of great writing. Knut Hamsun published only three collections of short stories during his lifetime and abandoned the form e...

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Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town. His presence acts as a catalyst...

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This is the story of Isak, a worker of the land, with its roots in man's deepest myths about the struggle to cultivate the land and make it fertile. Sweeping and panoramic, the story moves at the pace of the passing seasons and with the growth of ...

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Ove Rolandsen, the telegraph operator in an isolated fishing village in northern Norway, is a man of sudden passions, a cheerful rogue fond of girls and alcohol. He constantly hatches ambitious schemes to the despair of his fiancee, Marie, houseke...

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A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into ma...

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The Wanderer consists of two closely related novels, Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings, has been acclaimed as one of Hamsun's greatest works. The narrator, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's real name), is a complicated character in search of the si...

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As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins, it brings progressive alienation from the old traditions; fo...

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In their gossiping at the pump the women express the poetry, the tawdriness and, above all, the sheer vitality of life in Hamsun's small coastal town. A birth (where did those brown eyes come from?); a marriage (shotgun?); a death in strange circu...

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A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced in...

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This is the story of Isak, a worker of the land, with its roots in man's deepest myths about the struggle to cultivate the land and make it fertile. Sweeping and panoramic, the story moves at the pace of the passing seasons and with the growth of ...

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