Talk: Knut Hamsun - Wikipedia. I wrote about the Danish author Thorkild Hansen's view on Hamsun, since the trial against Hamsun deservers investigations. After all Hamsun was 8.
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World War started - and Hansen stated, that he probably didn't like the Nazis much, rather he was suspicious of the English (Hamsun remembered the Boer War in South Africa and was opposed to the world dominance of Great Britain). And he had a lot of other good reasons, but generally Hansen found some devastating facts on the treatment of this old man - who was not senile or had any mental defects.
So altogether I would recommend, that the article of Hamsum gets the label: . How much of an antisemite was he? Did he actually buy into the whole Aryan philosophy?
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- Hunger Knut Hamsun Sult (1890; Hunger) is Hamsun's breakthrough novel about a young writer struggling to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a desolate.
- This release contains forward-looking statements with respect to the development of the Alvheim, Vilje and Hamsun fields.
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He was not a member of the Norwegian Nazi (Fascist) party (there's a photo showing him wearing a NS pin, but this is probably a fake), though members of his family was. He was always pro- German and anti- British, and expressed admiration for Hitler. He also expressed anti- Semit (and anti- Sami) views. Anti- Semitism and other kinds of racism was widespread before WW II. Hitler was admired by some conservatives. So the answer might be: He was not a Nazi - but like many other conservatives of the time, he had some Nazi sympathies. Unlike most others, however, he did not revert to Norwegian patriotism when Germany occupied Norway, but stick to his old views.
And on other occasions he contributed articles attacking leaders in the democracies. The Nazis certainly looked on him as an unconditional supporter. Everybody needs to read . There are no sources for his . The nazis were lunatics and had a revolutionary propaganda machine, yet somehow everybody takes it at face value that Hamsun unequivocally and . Does it occur to anybody that it was a myth or self- delusion perpetuated by the nazis? To this day, white supremacists want to claim Knut Hamsun, as an asset, just like the nazis did.
Rather than being an enthusiastic supporter, Hamsun simply did what he could to stop his fellow Norwegians from getting crushed by an occupation. He explains what his life was like during occupation, when parents were constantly petitioning him to help release their son(s) who were condemned to prison or execution. He was not a member of the nazi party, although he was fined for exactly that crime, and he denied it. Can you really read a Knut Hamsun book and still think he would lie about something like that? Doesn't anyone find it strange that naziism and racism do not figure into any of his books?
November 2. 01. 0 (UTC)Yes he did everything to . He thought he had a God- given capacity to talk reason with Adolf Hitler.
I seem to think that Adolf thought . Come to think of it, Nasjonal Samling consisted of people we today would call emos. Twice as many Norwegian Nazis chose to stay out of it, just because Quisling was a wimp. Hamsun must have been unaware of it all. I find it objective enough now as it is, as both views are presented.
However, I guess the article would turn out better if . Nuclear. Funk. 21. Nuclear. Funk 1. 2: 1.
September 2. 00. 5 (UTC)About the structuring. Edit. Ok, I inserted some more info about his life, and I placed his writing career under the headline . My purpose for this structuring is to make the article more easy to browse, and also more easy to contribute to..
If anyone disagrees, or spots anything obviously questionable, please say so? I know nothing of the book, but .
December 2. 00. 5 (UTC)Dermot. You're absolutely right. Asav 2. 2: 0. 9, 2. February 2. 00. 6 (UTC). In German, the word for .
September 2. 00. 6 (UTC) Allen Roth- -- No, it should be translated as The Trail of Hamsun , the book in its entirety is about how he was treated before, after and during the trial (Langfeldt etc) - ERGO: The book is not about Hamsun's trial, hence the title. Pronunciation. Edit. Could someone with knowledge of Norwegian tell us the correct way to pronounce his name? Pronunciation. Edit. Im norwegian and the propper way to pronounce his name is Hahmmsoon, or at least it's close. That he did not hold the views people attribute to him?
The Committee (appointed by the Norwegian Parliament) is only responsible for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy. From the perspective of historians (as opposed to literary scholars) his wartime actions and the postwar political retribution against Hamsun has been of considerable interest, even more so in Norway where there have been many books published on his case. I have used the most recent publication on this which summarizes all existing scholarship, evidence on both sides, and adds analysis.
In order to add these sections I deleted some of the existing sentences which did a poorer job of summarizing the postwar events. I also moved a White Supremacist link that I saw in the links section to the bottom (it offers very little new or interesting of note to the article) and added a description so visitors will know what kind of organization stands behind the article. Finally, I want to add that I think it is a shame that an author of this importance, from a literary standpoint gets so little treatment from a literary perspective. I'm a historian by trade so I can only add what I know about the controversy surrounding his wartime actions and postwar trial, where my own interests lie, but I hope someone will take the time to add more about his literary contributions so the article will not be as heavily weighted to the political and historical issues surrounding his legacy.- -K. Lawson (talk) 2. 3: 5.
October 2. 00. 8 (UTC)Undue weight. Edit. I think the war- time and post- war events are currently given undue (or even excessive) weight (more than two thirds of the article deals with these issues). These issues are less important compared to his literary work. Hamsun was not only a Nobel Prize- winning author, but considered by many of his peers and by critics as one of the leading authors of the 2. The war- time stuff is really only . Major Dahl (talk) 1.
July 2. 00. 9 (UTC)I took the liberty of reverting your dramatic edit; I'm impressed with your wiki- boldness and do NOT want you to take this as a statement that I believe you are wrong in your overall perspective. I'm willing to concede that the apparent repulsion wath a very old man's choice to embrace Nazi views probably it severely reactive; perhaps even indicative of a sense of guilt on the part of some Norwegians who cooperated more with the Germans than they wanted to admit. But. Wikipedia is strongest if it builds material by consensus focused on Wikipedia: neutral point of view achieved by representing facts in a fashion that identifies controversies. We don't pretend controversy does not exist - we discuss it and provide a balanced view. If the material is accurate, referenced, and encyclopedic it should be considered throughtfully before deletion. If the material which is there is not balanced, the focus should be on enhancing the material which is missing. Certainly there is more that can be said about his productive career.
For example if Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the . But I'd recommend we showcase his strengths, not simply delete material that we might not agree with. Please feel free to educate me here and we'll strive together to reach a balanced article. Sk. The material on the wartime and postwar events was way out of proportion, even if the other parts of the article had been significantly expanded upon, it would be like using over two thirds of the Michael Jackson article to describe his cosmetic surgery. I feel the current section (mostly the section that used to be in the article) on these issues is more than adequate.
Major Dahl (talk) 1. July 2. 00. 9 (UTC)The particular quote from Singer, which is from 1.
Singer translated many works by Hamsun (see Isaac Bashevis Singer). Major Dahl (talk) 1.
July 2. 00. 9 (UTC)I propose that you move the contended text here for discussion and redacting. We must be open and intellectually honest. We must attempt to use the Wikipedia, not as a pulpit for our world- view, but as a method to develop a more rational and less partisan world view. We should not demonize Hamsun - we should not whitewash him either.
To put it as Gunnar Sonsteby did, . This is the kind of thing which strengthens the article. It may be that Singer translated many works by Hamsun, but my copies of his works were translated by Worster, Stallybrass, Egerton & Lyngstad. I would dearly love to read a Singer translation but find none on Googlebooks or at Powell's. Yes, I know that the Wikipedia article states this as true and cites the author Stephen Tree . But I don't have Tree's work and I've been around Wikipedia long enough to believe that one wants to review references oneself when writing articles.
Following User: Meco's recommendation that we move it here, discuss, and redact, the material which was deleted will be parked here until we reach agreement on disposition. However, according to the Wikipedia page on Mr. Cerf, the stories in his books were fictional.
He sometimes used his status as a man of fame to improve the conditions of his area during the occupation and criticized the number of executions. Still, following the end of the war, angry crowds burned his books in public in major Norwegian cities. Police constable Finn Christensen took a statement from Hamsun on June 2. In the statement Hamsun denied being politically active or being a member of the fascist . Hamsun denied in his statement that he was trying to cover up his involvement, indicating that he wished he could have . Following a long period of psychological investigation that tormented the author and weakened him considerably, on February 5, 1. See also Gabriel Langfeldt and .
Hamsun was called to summons May 1. Nasjonal Samling. In contrast to an earlier claim in legal documents that Hamsun, . The judgement in the case was delivered December 1. In a vote of two to one, he was sentenced to pay civil compensation charges of 4.
Knut Hamsun - Wikipedia. Knut Hamsun. Knut Hamsun in July 1. Born. Knud Pedersen(1. August 4, 1. 85. 9Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.
Died. February 1. Grimstad, N. Hamsun's work spans more than 7.
He published more than 2. The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. He argued that the main object of modernist literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the . The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.
When he was three, the family moved to Hamsund, Hamar. Olsen used to beat and starve his nephew, and Hamsun later stated that his chronic nervous difficulties were due to the way his uncle treated him. In 1. 87. 4 he finally escaped back to Lom; for the next five years he did any job for money; he was a store clerk, peddler, shoemaker's apprentice, sheriff's assistant, and an elementary- school teacher. He asked businessman Erasmus Zahl to give him significant monetary support, and Zahl agreed.
Hamsun later used Zahl as a model for the character Mack appearing in his novels Pan (1. Dreamers (1. 90. 4), and Benoni and Rosa (1. The melodramatic story follows a poet Bj. This book was published under the pseudonym Knud Pedersen Hamsund. This book later served as the basis for Victoria: En K. He courted and met with high- ranking Nazi officers, including Adolf Hitler. Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote a long and enthusiastic diary entry concerning a private meeting with Hamsun; according to Goebbels Hamsun's .
His ashes are buried in the garden of his home at N. Wells praised Markens Gr. Isaac Bashevis Singer was a fan of his modern subjectivism, use of flashbacks, his use of fragmentation, and his lyricism.
The semiautobiographical work described a young writer's descent into near madness as a result of hunger and poverty in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania (modern name Oslo). To many, the novel presages the writings of Franz Kafka and other twentieth- century novelists with its internal monologue and bizarre logic. A theme to which Hamsun often returned is that of the perpetual wanderer, an itinerant stranger (often the narrator) who shows up and insinuates himself into the life of small rural communities. This wanderer theme is central to the novels Mysteries, Pan, Under the Autumn Star, The Last Joy, Vagabonds, Rosa, and others. Hamsun. For this reason, he has been linked with the spiritual movement known as pantheism (. Hamsun saw mankind and nature united in a strong, sometimes mystical bond. This connection between the characters and their natural environment is exemplified in the novels Pan, A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings, and the epic Growth of the Soil, .
In 2. 00. 9, to mark the 1. For this new edition, all of Hamsun's works underwent slight linguistic modifications in order to make them more accessible to contemporary Norwegian readers.
In 2. 00. 9, a Norwegian biographer stated, . Hamsun pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, as found in material by, for example, Joyce, Proust, Mansfield and Woolf. Personal life. Hamsun then married Marie Andersen (1. They had four children: sons Tore and Arild and daughters Elinor and Cecilia. Marie wrote about her life with Hamsun in two memoirs.
She was a promising actress when she met Hamsun but ended her career and traveled with him to Hamar. They bought a farm, the idea being . In 1. 91. 8 they bought N. The main residence was restored and redecorated. Here Hamsun could occupy himself with writing undisturbed, although he often travelled to write in other cities and places (preferably in spartan housing).
Political sympathies. In The Cultural Life of Modern America (1.
Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm. He also came to be known as a prominent advocate of Germany and German culture, as well as a rhetorical opponent of British imperialism and the Soviet Union. During both the World War I and World War II, he publicly expressed his sympathy for Germany.
His sympathies were heavily influenced by the impact of the Boer War, seen by Hamsun as British oppression of a small people, as well as by his dislike of the English and distaste for the USA. During the 1. 93.
Norwegian right- wing newspapers and political parties were sympathetic to various degrees to fascist regimes in Europe, and Hamsun came to be a prominent advocate of such views. During WWII, he continued to express his support for Germany, and his public statements led to controversy, in particular in the immediate aftermath of the war. When World War II started, he was over 8. Aftenposten, which had been sympathetic to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany from the beginning.
He suffered two intracranial hemorrhages during the war. Hamsun wrote several newspaper articles in the course of the war, including his notorious 1. His biographer Thorkild Hansen interpreted this as part of the strategy to get an audience with Hitler.
He attributes the cause to Hamsun's deafness. Regardless, Dietrich notes that it took Hitler three days to get over his anger. Instead, a civil liability case was raised against him, and in 1. Norwegian government of 3. Whether he was a member of Nasjonal Samling or not and whether his mental abilities were impaired is a much debated issue even today. Hamsun stated he was never a member of any political party.
Among other things Hansen stated: . In 1. 99. 6 the Swedish director Jan Troell based the movie Hamsun on Hansen's book. In Hamsun, the Swedish actor Max von Sydow plays Knut Hamsun; his wife, Marie, is played by the Danish actress Ghita N. Udkast (1. 1 articles, previously printed in Dagbladet)1. Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv (The Spiritual Life of Modern America)1. Sult (Hunger)1. 89. Mysterier (Mysteries)1.
Redakt. Slutningspil. Victoria. Brigantines saga I1. I . Skildringer fra Vesten og . It is based on the novel Dreamers (Sv. The latest adaptation, the Danish film of the same name, was directed by Henning Carlsen, who also directed the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish coproduction of the 1. Sult from Hamsun's novel of the same name.
Remodernist filmmaker. Jesse Richards has announced he is in preparations to direct an adaptation of Hamsun's short story The Call of Life. Enigma: the life of Knut Hamsun, New York, N. Y. Petersburg Times - A complex legacy. Introduction to Hunger^.
Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 7.
I skikkelse av oppkomlingen Benoni. Hartvigsen tegner Hamsun her for f. Lochner, 1. 94. 8, pp. Goebbels also claimed that . I en rettsak i Grimstad ble han id. Retrieved April 8, 2.
Troubling legacies: migration, modernism and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun. Continuum International Publishing Group. Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Haugan, J. The Fall of the Sun God. Knut Hamsun - a Literary Biography Oslo: Aschehoug. Humpal, Martin. The Roots of Modernist Narrative: Knut Hamsun's Novels Hunger, Mysteries and Pan.
International Specialized Book Services. Kolloen, Ingar Sletten. Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissident . Yale University Press. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 3. Larsen, Hanna Astrup.
Review of Sletten, Dreamer and dissenter and . In Los Angeles Times, 2. October 2. 00. 9. D'Urance, Michel.
The dark side of literary brilliance. University of Washington Press. External links. Retrieved 8 October 2. Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater,Davi Napoleon.
Includes discussion of Ice Age, a controversial production in which Hamson is the protagonist. Iowa State University Press. ISBN 0- 8. 13. 8- 1. Norwegian Nobel Laureate, Once Shunned, Is Now Celebrated, New York Times.