Knut Hamsun

The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)

Autor: Monika Zagar

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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Nor...

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Autor

Monika Zagar

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2009

Pagini

352

EAN

9780295989464

Enbook ID

04874865

Editura

University of Washington Press

Greutate

480

Dimensiuni

154 x 224 x 21

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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during the Second World War. In 1943, Hamsun sent his Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a token of his admiration and authored a reverential obituary for Hitler in May 1945. For decades, scholars have wrestled with the dichotomy between Hamsun's merits as a writer and his infamous ties to Nazism. In her incisive study of Hamsun, Monika agar refuses to separate his political and cultural ideas from an analysis of his highly regarded writing. Inspecting a number of his works, she reveals the ways in which messages of racism and sexism appear in plays, fiction, and none-too-subtle nonfiction produced by a prolific author over the course of his long career. In the process, agar illuminates Norway's long history of interaction with peoples at home and abroad. Focusing on selected masterpieces and drawing upon writings hitherto largely ignored, agar demonstrates that Hamsun did not arrive at his notions of race and gender late in life. Rather, his ideas were rooted in a mindset that idealized Norwegian rural life, embraced racial hierarchy, and tightly defined the acceptable notion of women in society. Making the case that Hamsun's support of Nazi political ideals was a natural outgrowth of his reactionary aversion to modernity, Knut Hamsun serves as a corrective to scholarship treating Hamsun's Nazi ties as unpleasant but peripheral details of a life of literary achievement. Monika agar is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota.

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