Books by Knut Hamsun (5)


1.

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.

2.

Hunger by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.” Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin... continue

3.

Mysteries : A Novel by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived.
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