Hamsun's

The specific model for "Tropic," Miller said (he was always generous about giving credit), was the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun's strange and fierce novel "Hunger" (1890), about a penniless writer wandering the streets of Oslo.

In Praise Of the Gross Lee Sandlin 2012

  Then on to Munich; a trip to Hamsun's Oslo in search of Hunger, then down to Moscova and finally to you, Deirdre.

Weld (St. Petersburg Blues) Andrew Trent 2010

In order to rescue the innovative fiction he apparently likes, Wood broadens his definition of "plausible" even further: "Kafka's" Metamorphosis "and Hamsun's Hunger and Beckett's Endgame are not representations of likely or typical human behavior; but they draw their power, in part, from their connection to the human."

Realism in Fiction 2008

A review of official Norwegian websites shows a virtual whitewashing of Hamsun's Nazi connection, while glorifying his literary career.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up? 2009

But there is one problem: Hamsun's love affair with Nazism.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up? 2009

If you haven't read Hamsun's Hunger or Handke's early work, you should do so before the final hour draws near, though the final hour is probably still some ways off -- I don't buy any of this 2012 pseudo-Mayan jive.

James Wolcott's Blog Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

In response, Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre denied the allegations of anti-Semitism, explaining that the commemoration was not political in nature and that a distinction was made between Hamsun's work and his world view.

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

If you haven't read Hamsun's Hunger or Handke's early work, you should do so before the final hour draws near, though the final hour is probably still some ways off -- I don't buy any of this 2012 pseudo-Mayan jive.

The Consolations of Pizza in a Foreign City: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Carlsen had directed a remarkable film version of Hamsun's Hunger 1968.

Archive 2007-11-01 M-mv 2007

Carlsen had directed a remarkable film version of Hamsun's Hunger 1968.

Fine Art Friday M-mv 2007