![]() He is supposed to have personally met Hitler and Goebbels. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.” Hamsun in 1939 by User “Anders Beer Wilse”, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun (Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition)ĭespite his being such a towering figure of world literature, Knut Hamsun’s legacy remains problematic. According to the Polish-born Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (also a Nobel laureate), this writer was “the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect-his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. ![]() Among the list of writers who have been influenced by Hamsun are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, and Ernest Hemingway. In Hunger, he pioneered the psychological techniques that pervade 20th and 21st literature-the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920 and came to be associated with the “ Norwegian new realism” literary movement. In my post on the novel Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, I mentioned that the Indonesian writer decided to pick up the pen (professionally) after being influenced by a book called Hunger (1890) by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). ![]()
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