A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
August 4, 1859
Died:
February 19, 1952
Norwegian novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays. The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. He argued that the main object of modernist literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". Hamsun is considered the "leader of the Neo-Romantic revolt at the turn of the 20th century", with works such as Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), and Victoria (1898).His later works—in particular his "Nordland novels"—were influenced by the Norwegian new realism, portraying everyday life in rural Norway and often employing local dialect, irony, and humour. Hamsun is considered to be "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years" (ca.1890–1990). He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, and Ernest Hemingway. Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect—his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun".
Author:
1999 At the Gate of the Kingdom
Novel:
1922 Poslední radost
1962 Kort är sommaren
1966 Hunger
1978 Mysteries
1979 Victoria
1988 Victoria
1993 The Telegraphist
1995 Pan
1997 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1999 At the Gate of the Kingdom
2001 Hunger
2013 Victoria
Writer:
1921 Growth of the Soil
1922 Pan
1922 Poslední radost
1923 Iron Wills
1962 Kort är sommaren
1966 Hunger
1978 Mysteries
1979 Victoria
1988 Victoria
1989 The Wanderers
1993 The Telegraphist
1995 Pan
1997 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1999 At the Gate of the Kingdom
2001 Hunger
2013 Victoria
Writer:
1975 Benoni and Rosa
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