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Knut Hamsun

Born

in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway

August 04, 1859

Died

February 19, 1952

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindbe ...more

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Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 121,234 ratings · 10,136 reviews · 721 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 65,397 ratings — published 1890 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growth of the Soil 4.22 avg rating — 13,666 ratings — published 1917 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pan 3.83 avg rating — 12,410 ratings — published 1894 — 359 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mysteries 4.02 avg rating — 8,280 ratings — published 1892 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victoria 3.76 avg rating — 8,665 ratings — published 1898 — 210 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanderer 3.90 avg rating — 1,508 ratings — published 1909 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 1949 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Autumn Star by Knut Hamsun, Oliver Stallybrass (Translator), Gunnvor Stallybrass (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 1906 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayfarers 4.16 avg rating — 965 ratings — published 1927 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamers by Knut Hamsun, Tom Geddes (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 1904 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

tags: abandonment, frustration, torment

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“I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

And which do you love best?

The dream.”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan

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“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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Joan of Arc by Mark Twain 1896, 455 pages

65 votes, 23.6%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

52 votes, 18.9%

Adam Bede by George Eliot 1859, 624 pages

48 votes, 17.5%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages

46 votes, 16.7%

The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell 1857, 587 pages

44 votes, 16.0%

Egil's Saga by Anonymous 1240, 243 pages

20 votes, 7.3%

275 total votes

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