Knut Hamsun : dreamer and dissenter / Ingar Sletten Kolloen ; translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.

Knut Hamsun : dreamer and dissenter / Ingar Sletten Kolloen ; translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.

Drømmer og erobrer. English

9780300123562 (alk. paper)
0300123566 (alk. paper)

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.

English

Translated from the Norwegian.

xii, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

PT8950.H3 Z67613 2009

839.82/36 B

"Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was a man both brilliant and controversial. Lauded for his literary achievements by Hemingway, Gide, Hesse, and others, he also provoked outrage for his open collaboration with the Fascists during the German occupation of Norway and for his insistent refusal to renounce his Nazi sympathies. This gripping biography of Hamsun, now available for the first time in English, offers a nuanced account of this morally ambiguous man. Drawing on Hamsuns extraordinary private archives and on his psychoanalysts notes, Ingar Sletten Kolloen delves deeply into Hamsuns personal life and character. In vivid and telling detail, he describes Hamsuns early years in a peasant farming family, his tempestuous and jealousy-racked second marriage, his erratic relationship with his children, and his infamous love affair with Nazi Germany, the roots of which Kolloen traces to Hamsuns earliest days. Much like the characters he created in novels such as Hunger, Growth of the Soil, Mysteries, and Pan, Hamsun was irrational, eccentric, strange, and compelling - a man uncomfortable in his own time" -- from book jacket.

Abridged ed. of the author's two volume work published in Norwegian as Hamsun : svermeren and Hamsun : eroberen in 2003-2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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