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Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949
by Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0826214568
- ISBN 13
- 9780826214560
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Columbia MO: University of Missouri, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth of the Soil, was and remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. Knut Hamsun Remembers America is a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun’s experiences during the four years he spent in the United States when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation, and none are readily available. Hamsun’s feelings about America and American ways were complex. For the most part, they were more negative than positive, and they found expression in many of his writings—directly in his reminiscences and indirectly in his fiction. In On the Cultural Life of Modern America, his first major book, he portrayed the United States as a land of gross and greedy materialism, populated by illiterates who were utterly lacking in artistic originality or refinement. Although the pieces in this collection are not all anti-American, most of them emphasize the strangeness and unpleasantness, as the author saw it, of life in what he called Yankeeland. Record # 378793
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- Title
- Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949
- Author
- Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0826214568
- ISBN 13
- 9780826214560
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Place of Publication
- Columbia MO
- Date Published
- 2003
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- Literature, essays, , .
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