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Глад / Виктория

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Два прочути романа на един от най-големите представители на литературата на Скандинавския север, на Европа, а и на света – норвежеца Кнут Хамсун (1859-1952), които представят творчеството му откъм неговите най-силни страни. „Глад“ (1890) е не само извънредно успешен дебют на своя млад автор, но и едно от първите произведения на европейската литература, в което се въвежда не-герой, без име/ без шанс и дори без инстинкт за оцеляване, чието състояние на отчужденост дори от самия себе си е метафоричен израз на изолацията на модерния индивид – социална, комуникативна, личностна. „Виктория“ (1898) е лирична повест, посветена на любовта и на страданието като синоним на копнежа по нея, на светлината, с която нейният незагасващ пламък озарява живота.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1898

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Knut Hamsun

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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.

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March 6, 2011
This edition combines Hamsun's breakthrough novel Hunger (1890) and his short novel Victoria (1898).

Hunger is an autobiographical novel to some extend and tells about the difficult months a young writer spends in Kristiania (the name of Oslo during the period 1877-1925). It is told in the first person and is the perfect example of the psychological realism which Hamsun advocates.
It is a very influential novel and one can clearly see traces of Hamsun's vandrer (no. 'wanderer', a recurring type of character in Hamsun's works) in twentieth century authors like Hesse, Salinger, Kafka and Bukowski.

Victoria is a love story, sometimes naïve and clichéd, but still moving.

I'd give Hunger 4.5/5 and Victoria 3.5/5, so my overall rating is 4/5.
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October 14, 2013
Северняшка школа на писане. Напомня на Херман Хесе- очевидно имам нужда от почивка от подобен тип автори.
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