Knut Hamsun

Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890. Extracts from the work had previously been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. Hunger portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner.

'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave very curiously. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open defiance and erratic self-revelations. Nagel's presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the townsfolk. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own destruction.

New edition of J. S. Scott's 1924 English translation of Children of the Age (original title: B rn av Tiden) by Knut Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun described it as "a novel about the war between the aristocrat and the peasant." The Encyclopedia of the Novel (2014) called it "a historically based--and utterly scathing--critique of modernity." And the Hamsun Centre (Hamsunsenteret) website wrote: "In Children of the Age a family's rise and fall are used to describe the decline and fall of a whole epoch. Thematically the novel has similarities to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901), with Hamsun's humour being the stylistic difference between the two." Children of the Age was a commercial success when it was first published in Norway in 1913. Isaac Anderson, writing in The Literary Digest International Book Review (1924), described it as "Hamsun's art at its best," and, while concluding that was "not so great a novel as Growth of the Soil," it had the same epic quality, and "deserves, and undoubtedly will have, a high place among the novels of our time." This new edition is not simply a scan of the original. It has been completely reformatted and redesigned. Spelling errors and other typos that appeared in the original Alfred A. Knopf edition have been corrected.

First published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" is the epic and seminal work by Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer. Originally published in Norwegian and subsequently translated into numerous languages and read around the world, "Growth of the Soil" has been lauded as one of the twentieth-century's most important and ground-breaking novels. Hamsun was a pioneer in a new more realistic style of literature and was one of the first to use a stream of consciousness writing technique that would have a profound influence on such writers as Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry Miller. "Growth of the Soil" is the lyrical and intensely subjective story of Isak, a rural farmer, his family, and his local community members. Isak represents the agrarian and primitive lifestyle that Hamsun idealized as opposed to the increasingly urban and modernized world around him. Isak and his family resist the obligations and complexities of the regimented world of rules and machines, but are also perplexed and confused by it when they are forced to interact with its realities. A thought-provoking examination of the tension between the old primitive world and the new modern one, "Growth of the Soil" endures as one of literature's modern masterpieces. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Wanderers: Translated From The Norwegian By W. W. Worster With An Introduction By Edwin Bj rkman This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. The book brilliantly probes the psychodynamics of alienation, obsession, and self-destruction, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of the abyss. Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller. Required reading in world literature courses, the highly influential, landmark novel will also find a wide audience among lovers of books that probe the "unexplored crannies in the human soul"

Denna tidlösa klassiker utforskar en ung mans kamp och triumf, och visar kraften i naturen och den mänskliga andan. Med mästerlig berättarkonst utforskar den teman som kärlek, ambition och strävan efter drömmar. Upplev skönheten och komplexiteten i livet genom detta anmärkningsvärda litterära verk.

Verging on death, a starving, destitute writer navigates the cold and indifferent city of Kristiania in search of his next meal. Frenzied and fevered, he chews on stale bread, devours scraps of wood and bites his own finger, sleeping under the stars in old, pungent blankets, until one day he is able to sell an article and buy some food - only for the cycle then to repeat itself... Knut Hamsun's first novel, Hunger won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 and went on to influence the likes of Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. This recording uses the 1996 translation by Sverre Lyngstad, which is considered to be the definitive version in English.

De fleste danske læsere kender Knut Hamsun for fremragende romaner som Sult, Pan, Victoria og Markens grøde – bøger som med rette bliver fremhævet som højdepunkter i skandinavisk litteratur. Men en stor og vigtig del af Hamsuns forfatterskab er desværre næsten gået i glemmebogen; nemlig de helt vidunderlige noveller og essays, som løbende blev udgivet gennem forfatterskabet. Det råder Turbine nu bod på med denne klassikerudgivelse. Knut Hamsun er den dag i dag hyldet for sin næsten hektiske og naturalistiske stil, som især kendes fra hovedværket Sult. Det er denne stil, som også flere af novellerne udmærker sig ved, og juvelen i novelle-kronen er den livlige og rørende Dronningen af Saba, om en ung mand, som genser sin ungdoms tabte kærlighed på toget fra København til Kalmar. Hun forsvinder for ham i perronens mylder, men han indlogerer sig på et hotel og søger, næsten som i en feber, den unge kvinde i Kalmars gader … for til sidst at finde hende spadserende i en park med sin mand. Hamsuns noveller er fulde af dybe personbeskrivelser, besynderlige situationer og et sprog så gnistrende levende, at man næsten kan høre det udtalt for sit indre øre. Dronningen af Saba og andre noveller af Knut Hamsun er vigtig, nordisk litteratur, sprogligt opdateret og klar til at finde nye læsere.

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING

"Golod" (1890) - vo mnogom avtobiografichnyj roman Knuta Gamsuna, prinesshij avtoru mirovuju slavu. Strashnaja v svoej prostote istorija molodogo nepriznannogo pisatelja, den za dnem balansirujuschego na grani golodnoj smerti. Realnost i prichudlivye, boleznennye fantazii perepletajutsja v ego soznanii, muchitelno perezhivajuschem nesootvetstvie mezhdu idealnym i materialnym mirom... Perevodchik: Baltrushajtis Jurgis

Victoria - et af Knut Hamsuns hovedværker - er en lille, men stor bog om kærlighed og et impressionistisk mesterværk. Møllersønnen Johannes har i mange år været forelsket i godejerdatteren Victoria. Men i Norge sidst i 1800-tallet er kærlighed mellem to børn af hver sin stand umulig. Det ved Victoria, der i lang tid ignorerer Johannes, og indvilliger i at lade sig gifte med rigmanden Otto, da hendes fader mangler penge. Johannes rejser til byen, bliver forfatter og vender hjem igen, hvor han forlover sig med Camilla. Rollerne er byttet om, nu er det Johannes, der er blevet uopnåelig for Victoria, der samtidig oplever op til flere tragedier midt i det liv, der skulle have været så fint. Victoria er sprogligt revideret af Ida Jessen.