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Knut Hamsun (1859–1952)

Autor(a) de Hunger

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About the Author

Knut Pedersen Hamsun was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway on August 4, 1859 and grew up in poverty in Hamarøy. At the age of 17, he became an apprentice to a ropemaker and also began to dabble in writing. This eventually became his full-time career. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime mostrar mais including The Intellectual Life of Modern America, Hunger, and Pan. In 1920, his novel Growth of the Soil, a book describing the attraction and honesty of working with the land, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Occupation of Norway during World War II, Hamsun was charged with treason for his affiliation with the party after the war ended. His property was seized, he was placed under psychiatric observation, and his last years were spent in poverty. He died on February 19, 1952. A 15-volume compilation of his complete works was published posthumously in 1954. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Knut Hamsun

Hunger (1890) 4,741 exemplares
Growth of the Soil (1921) 1,793 exemplares
Mysteries (1892) 1,421 exemplares
Victoria (1898) 848 exemplares
Wayfarers (1927) — Autor — 360 exemplares
Dreamers (1904) 237 exemplares
On Overgrown Paths (1949) 237 exemplares
The Wanderer (1909) 229 exemplares
The Women at the Pump (1920) 196 exemplares
Under the Autumn Star (1906) 146 exemplares
The Ring is Closed (1936) — Autor — 120 exemplares
The Last Chapter (1923) 117 exemplares
August (1930) 117 exemplares
Segelfoss Town (1915) 113 exemplares
The Road Leads On (1933) — Autor — 105 exemplares
Rosa (1926) 99 exemplares
Tales of Love & Loss (1997) 97 exemplares
The Last Joy (1912) — Autor — 86 exemplares
Benoni (1908) — Autor — 86 exemplares
A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (1909) 84 exemplares
Children of the Age (1913) 81 exemplares
In Wonderland (1903) 73 exemplares
Shallow Soil (1893) 55 exemplares
Benoni / Rosa (1908) — Autor — 41 exemplares
The Wild Choir (1974) 38 exemplares
Samlede verker (1992) 35 exemplares
La regina di Saba (1897) 26 exemplares
Trilogía del vagabundo (1929) 20 exemplares
Nälg ; Müsteeriumid ; Paan ; Victoria : [romaanid] (1986) — Autor — 17 exemplares
Bjørger (1981) 17 exemplares
Night Roamers and Other Stories (1992) 17 exemplares
Samlede verker. B.1 Sult ; Mysterier (1992) — Autor — 16 exemplares
Pan. Victoria (2007) 16 exemplares
Hambre Pan (1901) — Autor — 14 exemplares
Livsfragmenter : ni noveller (1988) 14 exemplares
Hamsuns beste : senere verker (2005) 14 exemplares
Hamsuns beste (2005) 14 exemplares
Romans (1999) 13 exemplares
Artikler 1889-1928 11 exemplares
Noveller (1978) 11 exemplares
Growth of the Soil Volume 1. (1921) 11 exemplares
Munken Vendt (2008) 10 exemplares
Over havet : artikler, reisebrev (1990) 10 exemplares
Esclaves de l'amour (1990) 10 exemplares
Pan e altri racconti — Autor — 9 exemplares
Pan: L'estrema gioia: romanzi (1970) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Samlede verker. B.25 På turné (2008) 8 exemplares
Obras escogidas. I (1957) 7 exemplares
Selected Letters, Volume 2: 1898-1952 (1998) — Autor — 7 exemplares
Sult : et fragment (1999) 6 exemplares
At the Gate of the Kingdom (2001) 6 exemplares
Knut Hamsun: Die Liebe ist hart (1939) 6 exemplares
Brev til Marie (1970) 6 exemplares
Die großen Erzählungen (2005) 5 exemplares
In the Grip of Life (1924) 5 exemplares
Siesta : Skitser 5 exemplares
Growth of the Soil, Volume 2 (1921) 5 exemplares
Dikte 5 exemplares
Victoria/Mysterier (1998) 4 exemplares
Romane (1990) 4 exemplares
En fløjte lød i mit Blod (2003) 4 exemplares
SPROGET I FARE (Småskrift) (2007) 4 exemplares
Fome Novela Gráfica (2021) 4 exemplares
Die Novellen II. (1988) 4 exemplares
Knut Hamsuns brev 1934-1950 (1994) 4 exemplares
Frammenti di vita (1989) 3 exemplares
Ord av Knut Hamsun (1996) 3 exemplares
Mysterier ; Sværmere 3 exemplares
Badas: Panas: Viktorija (2006) 3 exemplares
Fame e cespugli 3 exemplares
Glad / Viktorija (2009) 3 exemplares
"Lurtonen" (1995) 3 exemplares
Hamsuns polemiske skrifter (1998) 3 exemplares
Men livet lever. 1 3 exemplares
Die Novellen I (1982) 3 exemplares
Pan , Vagabundentage (1984) 3 exemplares
Obras completas 3 exemplares
Hamsun samleboks 3 exemplares
Mystérie ; Pan 2 exemplares
Knut Hamsun 2 exemplares
Rosa (2009) 2 exemplares
Livets spil 2 exemplares
Frauensieg (1942) 2 exemplares
Obras escogidas. T. 2 2 exemplares
Knut Hamsun, Høydepunkter (2002) 2 exemplares
Tulácké dny 2 exemplares
Schwärmer / Die Nachbarstadt. (1996) 2 exemplares
Men livet lever. 2 2 exemplares
Free Air / Hermann Lauscher / On Overgrown Paths — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Valitut teokset. 1 2 exemplares
Pienoisromaanit 2 exemplares
Editor Lynge 2 exemplares
6 Books By Knut Hamsun (2009) 2 exemplares
Kratskog 2 exemplares
Livet ivold 1 exemplar
Pan Livro 1 1 exemplar
ZGJIMI I TOKES 1 exemplar
Unter dem Halbmond 1 exemplar
Az új nemzedék 1 exemplar
Skitaltsy (2010) 1 exemplar
Szarady 1 exemplar
PÃO E AMOR 1 exemplar
al-Ju (1999) 1 exemplar
Benedicció de la terra (1985) 1 exemplar
Tuláci : román 1 exemplar
Mysterie 1 exemplar
Leidenschaften 1 exemplar
o pan / ο παν (2002) 1 exemplar
Mystérie 1 exemplar
Sult 1 exemplar
abdUllahs hAab — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Digte i udvalg 1 exemplar
Amerika kritische Schriften (1981) 1 exemplar
Skitnice, I. 1 exemplar
Skitnice, II. 1 exemplar
Et gjensyn 1 exemplar
The Game of Life 1 exemplar
The Call of Life 1 exemplar
Skitnice 1 exemplar
Ein Gespenst und andere Erlebnisse — Autor — 1 exemplar
Jul i åsen 1 exemplar
Artikler 1 exemplar
Knut Hamsun, 1920 (1993) 1 exemplar
Sateenkaari 1 exemplar
Under guldregnen 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
Hamsun: Erobreren 1 exemplar
Strijdend leven 1 exemplar
Norra puell 1 exemplar
Vida azafosa 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
Knut Hamsun - min far (1976) 14 exemplares
Min klient Knut Hamsun (1979) — Omtalt person — 8 exemplares
Ghosts and Ghastlies (1976) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Norway's Best Stories (1927) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Victoria [2013 film] — Original book — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Pedersen, Knut
Outros nomes
Hamsun, Knut
Data de nascimento
1859-08-04
Data de falecimento
1952-02-19
Localização do túmulo
Grimstad, Norway
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Noorwegen
País (no mapa)
Norway
Local de nascimento
Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway
Local de falecimento
Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway
Locais de residência
Lom Vaage, Gudbrandsdal, Noorwegen
Nørholm, Noorwegen
Ocupações
novelist
dramatist
poet
Relações
Hamsun, Marie (wife)
Hamsun, Tore (son)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1920)

Membros

Discussions

Hunger by Knut Hamsun em Book talk (Março 2015)

Críticas

I spent most of my younger reading years, reading Stephen King and others like him. Sometime in high school I discovered classics and read pretty much nothing but books written many years before I was born. Then I started to enjoy books from the 1960s-80s or so. Around fifteen years ago I started to read almost exclusively modern novels, with the occasional dip in the classics for old time's sake. Sometimes I would become obsessed with a certain author and not only read everything they wrote, but also try to explore the people who influenced the people who were influencing me. I discovered Knut Hamsun during my Charles Bukowski phase, read one of his books (Hunger), and liked it.

Another reviewer on Goodreads called this book, "Walden for emotionally-stunted teens trapped in adult-sized bodies." I couldn't agree more. The protagonist, Thomas Glahn, is living an ascetic life in a cabin on the woods of Norway. He tells time by the sun, ocean, birds, and grass. He hunts and fishes for all his food. These are things that often make a character likeable, but not this guy.

Glahn is obsessed with multiple "young girls," and hooks up with at least two of them. Whenever one of them doesn't give him the attention he desires, he throws a fit. At one point he threw her shoes off of a boat because he thought she was ignoring him. When he's jealous that she's talking to another man, he goes up to that man and spits in his ear. Finally, when he's leaving town and she asks if she could have his dog to remember him by, Glahn shoots his dog in the head and then sends the body to the girl. He's an immature, spoiled, racist (not surprising, since the author was good friends with Hitler, Goebbels, and the like) character.

The final part of the book is written by someone who hates Glahn and eventually murdered him...because he's jealous of the effect Glahn has a very young Tamil girl he's courting. What a waste of time this book was.
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bookonion | 28 outras críticas | Mar 9, 2024 |
Fame, pubblicato nel 1890, è il romanzo d'esordio di Knut Hamsun, che gli valse il successo immediato e la fama internazionale con il Nobel. L'opera, considerata un capolavoro della letteratura norvegese e moderna, narra le vicende di un giovane scrittore squattrinato che lotta per sopravvivere nella Cristiania di fine Ottocento.

Il protagonista, di cui non viene mai specificato il nome, vive in una condizione di perenne indigenza. Affamato e disperato, vaga per la città alla ricerca di un lavoro che gli permetta di sbarcare il lunario. Si imbatte in una serie di personaggi grotteschi emarginati come lui, con i quali instaura relazioni effimere e spesso conflittuali. La fame lo tormenta e lo porta a vivere allucinazioni e deliri, che offuscano la sua lucidità e lo sprofondano in un abisso di solitudine e alienazione.

Hamsun adotta uno stile narrativo in prima persona, con un flusso di coscienza che rende vivido e immediato il tormento interiore del protagonista. La scrittura è ricca di immagini evocative e simbolismi, che scandagliano la psiche del personaggio e la sua discesa verso la follia.Fame non è solo un romanzo sulla fame fisica, ma anche una metafora della fame di vita, di amore, di riconoscimento. Il protagonista, con la sua tenacia e il suo desiderio di riscatto, rappresenta l'emblema dell'artista incompreso che lotta contro le avversità della vita.

La rappresentazione realistica e cruda della miseria e dell'emarginazione sociale.
L'analisi introspettiva della psiche del protagonista, con le sue contraddizioni e i suoi tormenti interiori. Lo stile narrativo innovativo, che anticipa le correnti letterarie del Novecento. Fame è un romanzo potente e disturbante, che non lascia indifferenti. Un'opera che ci immerge nella mente di un uomo al limite, facendoci riflettere sulla precarietà dell'esistenza e sulla forza dello spirito umano.

Un libro per chi ama la letteratura moderna e introspettiva. Lettori interessati alle tematiche della fame, della povertà e dell'emarginazione. Chiunque voglia esplorare gli angoli più oscuri della psiche umana. Il romanzo è in parte autobiografico, Hamsun stesso visse in condizioni di povertà durante la sua giovinezza. Fame è stato tradotto in più di 40 lingue e ha ispirato numerosi film e adattamenti teatrali. Mio Padre (1906) l'aveva nella sua biblioteca.Simpatizzò per Hitler. Processato nel '48 venne internato a 88 anni.
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AntonioGallo | Feb 25, 2024 |
Norwegian Wood

It was hard to believe that this book was written in 1892. Certainly in style it’s ahead of its time. The depiction of the inner life of its characters, the stream of consciousness writing, the strange feelings we get of the troubled Camus-like anti-hero, are the most memorable features of this Norwegian novel.

Although written in the third person, Hansun drops into the mind of Nagel, the rebel without a cause who is the protagonist of this fascinating book.

The book starts with Nagel who| arrives unannounced at a Norwegian coastal town knowing no one, wearing a yellow suit and carrying a fur coat and a violin-less violin case. He takes a room at the local hotel and proceeds to embark upon some very unpredictable acts whose purposes are at odds with conventional society.

He takes pleasure in persuading people to act contravention to their own dispositions. He orders a new coat for the town jester, a cripple who ignorant villagers laugh at, calling him as “the midget”. He insists on buying an old worn-out chair from a poor widow for a price that exceeds her annual income. These people don’t want his money but Nagel wants them to go against their virtue of poverty to satisfy himself.

To Nigel money is no object and he throws it around hosting a “stag party” for the towns local dignitaries.

The dinner party scene was the highlight of the book. The town’s pastor, doctor, deputy and Negal sit around a table discussing world políticas. When thoroughly inebriated the move on to literature. Negal is contemptuous of Tolstoy, and Ibsen, calling them mediocre. He despises Marx, socialists and liberals, claiming the latter are makers of bureaucracies whose height of legislation is the setting up of a committee to improve the footwear of mailmen.

As the book progresses Nagel becomes manic, contradictory and irrational in his thought patterns. He confuses himself as his opposing desires clash. He proclaims his useless passion for the pastor’s blond-haired daughter and proposes to a poor gray-haired widow. When he falls down in his manic dementia the novel veers from the third person narrative to the stream of consciousness of Nagel’s mind.

Mysteries is a very intriguing book. I had to keep reminding myself that it was written in the 19th century. I had to google this writer, Knut Hamsun - I’d chanced upon the novel by accident. I needed to know more. This was when I was halfway through the book. I discovers he had, much later in life, praised Hitler. I almost stopped reading but continued to the end because I felt there must be some obscure reason. How could this be?

I ended up going with the Guardian reviewer in The Nazi novelist you should read -
“I will not defend Hamsun's politics. He betrayed both his country and more importantly humanity in general and deserves every bit of the scorn that's been heaped upon him. Hamsun's writing, however, is another matter. Whether we like the man or not, it seems to me both foolish and pointless to continue ignoring the significance of Hamsun's work - if for no other reason than it's an important part of our literary evolution and denying this can do nothing but cloud our understanding of our ourselves as readers and writers.”

I am both glad and ashamed that I finished this novel. Like the book’s main character, I’m holding two competing thoughts in my head. I can’t unread it. I thought the book was brilliant.
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½
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kjuliff | 22 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
[Hunger] is about a starving writer who is, you guessed it!, hungry. I loved it. The main character is a young man trying to make it as a writer, but he is so poor and unable to find work that pays, that he is literally starving. Instead of writing, he spends much of his time looking for shelter and sustenance, or walking around trying to take his mind off of his hunger. In between, he works on his writing and sometimes comes up small sums of money, either for his work or by accident. He's obviously educated and I wonder why he had no support system at all. It's also clear that some of the people he interacts with have no idea just how close he is to starving to death.

Not much happens in this book. The main character interacts with a few people, but largely the book takes place inside his head and stomach. In some ways, when I reflect back on it, I have a hard time putting my finger on why I liked it so much. I think it's because it was honest, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and because the main character is both maddening and admirable.
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½
 
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japaul22 | 123 outras críticas | Feb 16, 2024 |

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