Actually, in my opinion, a man didn’t have to be insane to be sensitive. There were people who could be wounded by trifles and whom a single hard word could kill
QUOTE "Singer admitted to being “hypnotized” by him; Hesse called him his favorite writer; Hemingway recommended his novels to Scott Fitzgerald; Gide compared him to Dostoyevsky, but believed that Hamsun was “perhaps even more subtle.” The list of those who loved his sly, anarchic voice is long." Jeffrey Frank
1877 Den Gaadefulde. En kjærlighedshistorie fra Nordland (Published under Knud Pedersen)
1878 Et Gjensyn (Published under Knud Pedersen Hamsund)
1878 Bjørger (Published under Knud Pedersen Hamsund)
1889 Lars Oftedal. Udkast (11 articles, previously printed in Dagbladet)
1889 Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv - The Spiritual Life of Modern America
1890 Sult - Hunger
1892 Mysterier - Mysteries
1893 Redaktør Lynge
1893 Ny Jord - Shallow Soil
1894 Pan - Pan
1895 Ved Rigets Port - At the Gate of the Kingdom
1896 Livets Spil - The Game of Life
1897 Siesta
1898 Aftenrøde. Slutningspil
1898 Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie - Victoria
1902 Munken Vendt. Brigantines saga I
1903 I Æventyrland. Oplevet og drømt i Kaukasien - In Wonderland
1903 Dronning Tamara (Play in three acts)
1903 Kratskog
1904 Det vilde Kor (Poems)
1904 Sværmere - Dreamers
1905 Stridende Liv. Skildringer fra Vesten og Østen
1906 Under Høststjærnen. En Vandrers Fortælling - Under the Autumn Star
1908 Benoni
1908 Rosa. Af student Pærelius' Papirer - Rosa
1909 En Vandrer spiller med Sordin - A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings
1909 En Vandrer spiller med Sordin - Also translated combined with Under Høststjærnen as Wanderers
1910 Livet i Vold (Play in four acts) - In the Grip of Life
1912 Den siste Glæde - The Last Joy
1913 Børn av Tiden - Children of the Age
1915 Segelfoss By 1 - Segelfoss Town (Volume 1)
1915 Segelfoss By 2 - Segelfoss Town (Volume 2)
1917 Markens Grøde 1 - Growth of the Soil
1917 Markens Grøde 2
1918 Sproget i Fare
1920 Konerne ved Vandposten I - The Women at the Pump
1920 Konerne ved Vandposten II
1923 Siste Kapitel I - The Last Chapter (Volume 1)
1923 Siste Kapitel II - The Last Chapter (Volume 2)
1927 Landstrykere I - Wayfarers
1927 Landstrykere II
1930 August I - August (Volume 1)
1930 August II - August (Volume 2)
1933 Men Livet lever I - The Road Leads On (Volume 1)
1933 Men Livet lever II - The Road Leads On (Volume 2)
1936 Ringen sluttet - The Ring is Closed
1949 Paa gjengrodde Stier - On Overgrown Paths
Knut Hamsun's Details
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Leo
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Norwegian novelist, dramatist, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.
Biography (mainly from wikipedia):
Knut Hamsun was born on august the 4th 1859 as Knud Pedersen in Lom in Gudbrandsdal. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen and Tora Olsdatter. He grew up in poverty in Hamarøy in Nordland. At seventeen, he became an apprentice to a ropemaker, and at about the same time he started to write. He spent several years in America, travelling and working at various jobs, and published his impressions under the title Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv (1889). In 1898, Hamsun married Bergljot Goepfert, but the marriage ended in 1906. Hamsun then married Marie Andersen (born in 1881) in 1909 and she would be his companion until the end of his life. She wrote about their life together in her two memoirs. Marie was a young and promising actress when she met Hamsun, but she ended her career and travelled with him to Hamarøy. They bought a farm, the idea being "to earn their living as farmers, with his writing providing some additional income". However, after a few years, they decided to move south, to Larvik. In 1918, the couple bought Nørholm, an old and somewhat dilapidated manor house between Lillesand and Grimstad. The main residence was restored and redecorated. Here Hamsun could occupy himself writing undisturbed, although he often travelled to write in other cities and places (preferably in spartan housing). Knut Hamsun died on february the 19th 1952 in his home at Nørholm. He was 92 years old.
Hamsun first received wide acclaim with his 1890 novel Hunger (Sult). The semi-autobiographical work described a young and egocentric writer's descent into near madness as a result of hunger and poverty in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania (now Oslo). To many, the novel presaged the writings of Franz Kafka and other twentieth-century novelists with its internal monologue and bizarre logic. Other important works by Hamsun include Pan, Mysteries, and The Growth of the Soil (by which he received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920). A fifteen-volume edition of his complete works was published in 1954.
Knut Hamsun's influence on european and american litterature in the 20th century cannot be overestimated.
In 1929 Thomas Mann claimed that the Nobelprize in litterature never had been awarded to anyone deserving better,
and writers like Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Boris Pasternak,
Maxim Gorkij, and André Gide have all expressed their Hamsun-admiration.
In a preface in an american edition of "Sult" (Hunger) Isac Bashevis Singer stresses that Hamsun
"with his subjectivity, his impressionism, his use of the retrospective, his lyrics,
are in every aspect the father of modern litterature." Singer means that the whole modern school of fiction
in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.
Robert Ferguson which has written a biography about Hamsun have shomething of the same starting point.
In "The Enigma of Knut Hamsun" (1988) he concludes that "craftsmanlike, he was one of the most influential
and ingenious literary stylists in the past century. There is bearly a living writer in europe or america
that are not, either consciously or uncosciously, indebted to him."
I will have to say a few words about this page concerning Knut Hamsuns political views. Unfortunately Knut Hamsun did support the nazi movement. In 1943 he met Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels and he gave Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a token of his esteem. Hamsun published a series of pro-Fascists articles and welcomed the Germans to Norway. He also encourage the people of Norway to surrender.
I strongly oppose all form of Fascism/Nazism/Racism and I think this dark side of Hamsun is both regrettable and a shame. I do not run this site in any other purpose than to promote Hamsun as a writer.
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In the magicalities of a could, Between the probabilities of a would, Beyond the trivialities of a should, In these ungraspable mysticalities There lies a secret a passage… To this extraordinary wood.
But for you, it unfolds easily and true And the only thing you have to do Is press play, and you’ll have a view.
Civil Disobedience is the best known text of Thoreau. Written in 1848 has deeply influenced people like Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King and many others.
Far ahead of his time, his defense of the Right to Rebellion was always been in the service of combating all forms of discrimination. He fought against slavery in the U.S., women’s rights, in defense of the environment, discrimination against ethnic and sexual. As a pacifist Radical (going to the root of evil-fighting) refused to pay taxes to an authoritarian government that was more a predatory war in which he stole more than half of Mexican territory - this radical act of civil disobedience cost him time in jail it was useful to write and leave to posterity his thoughts - often, I would say that in most of them, the fighter and it is truly just and perfect is recognized only posthumously after a life plagued with troubles. Matter of choice. There are those who do not condone injustice, oppression, arrogance and theft. There are those that fit. Who sleeps in general, better lives, but as I said Leonardo Da Vinci, are merely conducting food, leaving no trace of their passage through the world except latrines flood ...
About a Man of the Carat of Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) much has been said. Himself, I keep me some pearls axiomatically:
"When the subject denies obedience and when the employee refuses to apply the laws that are unjust or simply resigned, the Revolution is finished"
"The tyranny of the Law is not slowed by origin majority"
"Only each person can be judge of his own life"
"It is not enough to be left alone by a government that practices systematic corruption and tax charges of harming their own people!
Knut Hamsun was the father of modern literature, and taken together 'Hunger', 'Mysteries' and 'Pan' are one of the most beautiful, disturbing and mystifying achievements in art. The scene in 'Pan' where Glahn farewells Aesop, the scene in 'Mysteries' where Nagel plays the violin - these are things which will stay with me forever. Many times I have wished I could thank Hamsun; in his absence this will have to do. Thank you.
now available for pre-order, j. michael niotta's chapbook, "the devil's doin the same damn thing he's always done.'
noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.
"look, the stuff is good. quite good. straight up - like a good half-glass of whiskey." —dan fante, author of ‘mooch,’ ‘spitting off tall buildings,’ ‘kissed by a fat waitress,’ & ‘a gin pissing raw meat dual carburetor v-8 son of a bitch from los angeles.’
cover & bio photography by adria photography www.myspace.com/adriaphotography
Michael Brunnock's in depth interview with journalist Suzanne Connolly is uploaded and available to watch. It can be seen either on Michael's front page www.myspace.com/michaelbrunnock or on Fairplay Collective's video page http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=64241695
Sound waves: turning voices. Quarteto vocal em ondas semi-controladas. Absurdo local e a periferia histórica. O "real" nasce da linguagem no preciso momento da percepção & feedback.
Knut Hamsun er en mytisk figur, en kultfigur i litteratur. Jeg har alltid vært fascinert av "Sult"... Dette er trolig en av de viktigste bøkene jeg har lest. Tusen takk !
Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Letters, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature
have the pleasure to invite you to the event: HAMSUN 2009, 27-28 October in Cluj-Napoca, in the „Aula” of the Faculty of European Studies (1, Em. de Martonne St.)
which marks the 150 year-anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s (1859-1952) birth. Aiming at preserving the literary legacy of the Norwegian author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920, the anniversary year - Hamsun 2009 - is celebrated both in Norway and internationally.
In Romania, the commemorative project “Hamsun 2009” consists of a cycle of conferences, with interventions from Norwegian and Romanian Hamsun- specialists, as well as a poster and a book exhibition. Old and new films inspired by Hamsun’s life and work will also be screened.
Let us present a little comment, That in this very particular moment, Presents happiness for lack of rejection That turned into invisible connection Of ThiSpace and ThaTime friends, Link so sturdy that it never ends, And a little video it sends...
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
One thing's for sure, Knut had the coolest moustache.
"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content." -K.H.
