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Hamsun

Knut, , pen name of Knut Pedersen. 1859-- 1952, Norwegian novelist, whose works include The Growth of the Soil (1917): Nobel prize for literature 1920

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Consistent to the end in his antipathy to modern Western culture, Hamsun supported the Germans during their occupation of Norway in World War II.

Hamsun, Knut

The completed Hamsun Centre must seem something of a fairytale for Steven Holl Architects, given that it was awarded the commission in 1994.

064 Knut Hamsun Centre

For Knut Hamsun, as you note in Le Complexe de Caliban, the writer's work is to examine the contradictions inside the human psyche; for Sartre, it is to engage politically in the world.

Literature and the outsider: an interview with Linde Le

Today Hamsun is little known or read in the English world and remains a deeply problematic presence in his homeland.

Artist of Skepticism - Knut Hamsun, father of the modern school of literature

Von Sydow's Hamsun convincingly portrays weariness.

VON SYDOW CONVEYS IRON WILL OF NAZI SUPPORTER IN `HAMSUN'

Como pasatiempo, durante mi convalecencia habia comenzado a releer los viejos y pesados libros de los rusos Tolstoi, Pushkin, Gogol y Dostoievski, y de repente recorde que Knut Hamsun (Nobel noruego 1925) durante su vida adulta colgaba un retrato de precisamente Dostoievski en su estudio.

Odisea de Carlsen al filmar "Memoria de mis putas tristes"

Boccaccio, Petronius, Rabelais, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau Maeterlinck, Romain Rolland, Plotinus, Heraclitus, Nietzsche Dostoievsky (and other Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century), the ancient Greek dramatists, the Elizabethan dramatists (excluding Shakespeare), Theodore Dreiser, Knut Hamsun, D.

Henry Miller: a study

Habria que anadir, como refiere Lucia Guerra en el prologo de las Obras completas de Bombal, que las paginas de Christian Andersen (infancia), Selma Lagerlof (adolescencia) y Knut Hamsun (madurez), en las distintas etapas de la vida, tuvieran resonancias en su escritura.

Entre a bruma y el desamor: Maria Luisa Bombal

The quote from Sigrid Combuchen's biographical study of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun both does and does not apply to her wonderfully

Sigrid Combuchen. Livsklattraren: En bok om Knut Hamsun

Bad translations, his similarity to Dickens and Lawrence, and his support for Nazism in his native Norway are among the reasons suggested to explain why Hamsun (1859-1952) has never been popular in English speaking countries, says Lyngstad (emeritus English, New Jersey Institute of Technology).

Knut Hamsun, novelist; a critical assessment

Throughout the novel Hamsun and his narrator excoriate the banal mediocrity of city life and dismiss artistic and intellectual activity that alienates the individual from the glorious intimacies of rural life.

Knut Hamsun. The Last Joy

Novelist Knut Hamsun grew to maturity in the 1860s and '70s in this distant land, high above the Arctic Circle.

Hamsun's Nordland - Norway's arctic north cast a spell upon the youthful Knut Hamsun, the novelist who would win the nobel prize for his lyrical portrayal of this majestic landscape and its people

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