Hamsun

• “This primitivism (and its concomitant distrust of all things modern) found its fullest expression in Hamsun's masterpiece”

  Knut Hamsun - Biography

• “And here's the article that made me recall Hamsun today: "In from the Cold" The New Yorker, 12/26/2005:”

  The recommended daily allowance

• “When I read Mysteries, I had no idea about the unredeemable loyalties of Hamsun henceforth referred to as Hamsun the Prick.”

  We Have the Facts and We’re Voting “Asshole” : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

• “Taking it all in all, one may well call Hamsun old-fashioned.”

  Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest

• “Moreover, the scene is laid, not in salons and ante-chambers, but in a landscape such as Hamsun loves, the forest-clad hills above a little fishing village, between the höifjeld and the sea.”

  The Growth of the Soil

• “The crisis was past, but echoes of it were heard as late as 1912, the year of “Last Joy,” which well may be called Hamsun’s most melancholy book.”

  Under the Autumn Star

• “I'll tell you what, if I'd been forced to read the collected works of Knut Hamsun at nine, I too would have gone into the forest; only it would have been to shoot myself.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeff Klima: How to Get Kids to Read Again

• “I make a point of skipping all front matter, if not actually slicing it out, as I did recently when I found Paul Auster dithering around in my Knut Hamsun.”

  Monster of Marriage

• “The closest visual parallel to his Fourth Symphony is arguably Edvard Munch, whom he met in Berlin in the 1890s, just as his closest literary parallels might be August Strindberg and Knut Hamsun.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nordic Exposure at Bard

• “Hamsun won the Nobel prize in 1920 and, in 1943, gave it to Joseph Goebbels as a gift.”

  The Guardian: How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Utøya massacre?

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