Knut Hamsun

Zlidennij molodij pismennik iz Khristianiji namagajetsja zarobiti na prozhitok napisannjam statej do mistsevoji gazeti. I khoch temi dobiraje ne zovsim vdali, a rozrakhovani na tonkikh potsinovuvachiv, use zh podekoli jomu talanit vidobuti trokhi groshej na kilka dniv prozhitku. Odnache odioznist kharakteru j postijnij golod sponukajut literatora do bezgluzdikh uchinkiv i pustoschiv. U svidomosti napivgolodnogo odinaka zrinajut erotichni fantaziji j u kozhnij strichnij vin bachit ideal vimrijanoji krasuni, jaka butsim meshkaje v zamku Ilajali. Chi vtilitsja tsja fantazija v realnist? Chi napishe mitets nezrivnjannij literaturnij shedevr? Chi rozdobude kopijchinu na prozhitok i dast radu svojemu neperebornomu j nevsitimomu golodu?

Nordisk jul er en samling af nordiske julefortællinger. Nogle af Nordens største fortællere beretter her om alt, der vedrører julen. Der er opbyggelige fortællinger om medmenneskelighed, mirakler og tro, mørkere og hjerteskærende fortællinger, der minder os om vigtigheden af medmenneskelighed i julen, fortællinger, hvor gamle fjendskaber sættes til side, så der opstår en mulighed for forsoning og forståelse julenat, fortællinger om julens forventninger, skuffelser og glæder, om julegilder, juleforberedelser og ikke mindst julegaver. Glædelig jul! Indhold: Den hellige nat – Hulda Lütken En juleaften – Marie Bregendahl Et julegilde – Knut Hamsun Fred på jorden – Selma Lagerlöf I juletravlheden – Marie Bregendahl I kupéen – Victoria Benedictsson Julefred – Sigrid Undset Julegaver – Herman Bang Karens jul – Amalie Skram Legenden om juleroserne – Selma Lagerlöf Pelsen – Hjalmar Söderberg

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. He argued that the main object of modernist literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow".

New edition of J. S. Scott's 1925 English translation of Segelfoss Town (original title: Segelfoss By) by Knut Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Segelfoss Town was first published in Norway in 1915 and is an independent continuation of Hamsun's Children of the Age, published two years earlier. The novel is a criticism of modern times, depicting the fall of the landed gentry and the rise of the working class. Segelfoss Town and its predecessor were the first of Hamsun's novels devoted to social issues. The two novels are described by Monika Zagar in Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (2009) as "much more than dry social analysis; indeed, they investigate, in rich novelistic form, the propagation and survival of a family."

«Skjælver saa nederdrægtig paa Haanden, for jeg har kjøpt et Par Ting i en Antikvitetshandel og baaret dem til Hotellet. Det blev tungt i Længden,» skriver Hamsun til sin Marie, Oslo 1926. Tyngre skulle det bli på andre måter utover i mellomkrigsårene. Hamsun runder 70 år og feires med bravour – han kvitterer med sin mesterlige trilogi om landstrykeren August. I Tyskland kommer Hitler til makten, Ossietzky-saken ruller opp, og vi aner at en opprivende ideologisk konflikt mellom dikterhøvdingen og hans folk er i kim.

The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche A Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the strange girl Edvarda comes into his life. Sverre Lyngstad's superb translation of Hamsun's 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self-determined and eager to escape his poor village of Polden. He becomes a close friend of August, a man-orphan, rootless, who sings fantastic tales of a wondrous world. In their years of seafaring, peddling, and raucous-raising-sometimes together, sometimes separated-Edevart grows in understanding, becoming a cunning businessman, experiencing the exhilaration and devastation of love and learning to enjoy the freedom of his wandering lifestyle. Nobel prize winner Hamsun expertly weaves the clashing ideologies-the draw of a comfortable home and the excitement of adventure and the sea-with Edevart's own picaresque, as it drifts between restlessness and a peaceful happiness.