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A carregar... Growth of the Soil (1917)por Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsun
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |  Part I was excellent. Part II really loses steam as others have mentioned. (  ) peacocoa | Sep 24, 2023 | ) Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 | ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 | And this guy, he's above petty concerns like commerce and legislation and civic planning. He grows the soil, and as the book says, Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. Yeah, that'll show those wasters, the foolish idlers who lay about in heated rooms eating food they didn't grow themselves, and designing things like labor-saving farm machinery! It is, as they say, such a crock. The novel does not rise above this, either; every chapter, every page bludgeons the reader with the same simple moral lesson: tilling the soil good, everything else bad. The tale itself is fairly well-told, though (Ho!). The presence of characters with more complicated motives, such as Geissler, saves this from being a heavy-handed morality tale, making it more of a social commentary. And who can resist a book with such delicate characterization as this: She was utterly sick and tired of the farm and the wooden vessels, that took such a lot of cleaning; sick and tired, perhaps, of Axel and all, of the out-of-the-way life she led. But she never killed any of the cattle, and Axel never found her standing over him with uplifted knife in the middle of the night. Now, truly, what more could a man ask for in a wife? (  ) mkfs | Aug 13, 2022 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. English translator W. W. Worster summed up the novel with these words: "It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands." "It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant note is one of patient strength and simplicity; the mainstay of its working is the tacit, stern, yet loving alliance between Nature and the Man who faces her himself, trusting to himself and her for the physical means of life, and the spiritual contentment with life which she must grant if he be worthy." "Modern man faces Nature only by proxy, or as proxy, through others or for others, and the intimacy is lost. In the wilds the contact is direct and immediate; it is the foothold upon earth, the touch of the soil itself, that gives strength." "The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity. The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god. A more objective work of fiction it would be hard to find--certainly in what used to be called 'the neurasthenic North.'" .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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