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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: 4.0 · 119,682 ratings · 9,931 reviews · 731 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 64,595 ratings — published 1890 — 872 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 — 13,375 ratings — published 1917 — 423 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 — 12,258 ratings — published 1894 — 141 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 — 8,208 ratings — published 1892 — 186 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 — 8,555 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 — 1,502 ratings — published 1909 — 144 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 — 1,355 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 — 1,129 ratings — published 1906 — 5 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 4.17 avg rating — 957 ratings — published 1927	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 — 1,018 ratings — published 1904 — 78 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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3.84 avg rating — 3,056 ratings

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Quotes by Knut Hamsun (?)

“...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

281 likes

“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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October 2021 Old School Classics

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 158 pages

58 votes, 26.5%

Washington Square by Henry James 1880, 240 pages

47 votes, 21.5%

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 1766, 197 pages

33 votes, 15.1%

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400, 160 pages

32 votes, 14.6%

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1864, 477 pages

25 votes, 11.4%

A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift 1704, 208 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 187 pages

11 votes, 5.0%

219 total votes

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