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May 01, 2009
RandomAnthony
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I first encountered Knut Hamsun while checking out the Munch exhibit gift shop at Chicago’s Art Institute. Apparently the show organizers decided to include some books along with bookbags and erasers featuring “The Scream” and my friend Paul, an English professor, pointed at Hamsun’s “Mysteries and said, “Have you read that? You’d like it.” Now, I have to admit, my ego took a hit that afternoon. I love these depressing, northern European writers. How in the hell have I not heard of a guy who
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Aug 11, 2011
Phyllis
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"Dreamers" is a delightful, comedic tale full of colorful characters. At first, I thought that the book was just a sweet little story and the perfect snack for a summer's evening. However, after letting the book marinate in my mind for a few days, it occurs to me that the sudden switches in point of view make the quality of the story more dreamlike.
Near the end of the book, oafish and endearing Ove Rolandsen says: "Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have More...
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Apr 23, 2009
Gertrude & Victoria
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Knut Hamsun's Dreamers is like a strange dream rendered into a stranger reality, as one man, Ove Rolandsen, takes on a whole village to satisfy his needs of love and recognition. His actions are not guided exclusively by selfishness, but from some incomprehensible inclination to act. Of course, the village people are not in on some plan to destroy him, but rather, he brings his misfortunes upon himself.
This work is a penetrating analysis of man's unpredictable and inexplicable natu More...
This work is a penetrating analysis of man's unpredictable and inexplicable natu More...
Jul 02, 2010
Dublin
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Reading this novel can perhaps best be described as how you might feel after waking up midway through a wet dream. You're left confused, though this confusion soon passes and is replaced by an awareness that you've experienced something pretty extraordinary in spite of your ultimate feeling of unfulfillment.
It tells the story of Ove Rolandsen (a charming, contradictory, drunken, dreaming lothario much like myself) and the people of the little coastal village he inhabits, all o More...
Jun 20, 2010
Barry
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Tight if inconsequential, the character-panoramas he went for in Mysteries and Victoria are much more effective - and in astonishinhly economical ways - here, but there isn't any of the former's depth to the main protagonists, nor the latter's richness in tone and/or theme (the love story, i guess?) - but this one has this great little plot which clips along and great humor and cool little variations on some Hamsun-ian tropes (bipolar inner monologues; arrival of The Stranger; respite to n More...
May 02, 2008
I was shocked to see Hamsun working in a very different milieu from Hunger, which, to me, felt very urban and very modern. Dreamers is rural and simple in a fairy-tale sort of way. While it certainly does not carry the weight of the other book, it is a good short read nonetheless. It is funny and strange and starkly pretty.
Dec 16, 2009
Caleb
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A rather short novella length offering from the writer famous for "Hunger". Lovable rouge tries to make good in this tale which was surprising light reading considering - or maybe I'm just missing something.
Aug 05, 2007
fstab
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minor hamsun novella. not as great as his prime works, but still a worthwhile and pleasurable read.
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