Beschreibung:

488 S. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Knut Hamsun is one of the founders of modern European literature. His influence can be seen in the work of writers as diverse as Herman Hesse, Ernest Hemingway and Katherine Mansfield, while Isaac Bashevis Singer said of him that he was 'the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect', and that 'the whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.' Yet despite his importance very little is known about Hamsun outside his native Norway. In an extraordinary writing career spanning some seventy of his ninety-three years, Hamsun produced a wide variety of work, poetry, plays, short story collections and travel sketches as well as his renowned novels such as Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and The Growth of the Soil. Hamsun spent much of his early life in impoverished circumstances, supplementing his meagre income as a writer by working as pig-minder, shoe-maker, peddlar, builder and even Sunday School teacher. In this first serious study of Hamsun to be published outside Norway, Robert Ferguson has successfully captured the restless and enigmatic spirit of Hamsun as author and man to produce a major biography of one of this century's most important and neglected writers. His vision of Hamsun's political failings is clearsighted, and his insights into the writer's work and character likely to provide a major reassessment. (Klappentext). ISBN 9780091671303