![]() ![]() Hamsun saw mankind and nature united in a strong, sometimes mystical bond. For this reason, he has been linked with the spiritual movement known as pantheism (“No one knows God,” he once wrote, “man knows only gods.”). Hamsun's prose often contains rapturous depictions of the natural world, with intimate reflections on the Norwegian woodlands and coastline. ![]() To many, the novel presages the writings of Franz Kafka and other twentieth-century novelists with its internal monologue and bizarre logic. The semiautobiographical work described a young writer's descent into near madness as a result of hunger and poverty in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania (modern name Oslo). Hamsun first received wide acclaim with his 1890 novel Hunger (Sult). He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. ![]() Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 - 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. ![]()
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