This primitivism (and its concomitant distrust of all things modern) found its fullest expression in Hamsun's masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun - Biography] Reference

Taking it all in all, one may well call Hamsun old-fashioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan] Reference

And here's the article that made me recall Hamsun today: "In from the Cold" The New Yorker, 12/26/2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [The recommended daily allowance] Reference

Hamsun was then at the peak of his literary career.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Stamps of 1980] Reference

Hamsun was born in the country, of and among peasants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

It is a new note in Hamsun; the opening of a new motif.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

Hamsun was sixty when he wrote “Growth of the Soil.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1920).    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up?] Reference

Hamsun has just celebrated his sixtieth birthday anniversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

Then, without warning, Hamsun enters upon a new phase of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

Hamsun would not be the artist he is if he were less deceptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

One of the most powerful books I've ever read is Hunger, by Knut Hamsun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirty Lives and Times] Reference

I was trying to come up with an answer to whether you should read Hamsun.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Have the Facts and We’re Voting “Asshole” : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

The truth, however, is that Hamsun stands today where he has always stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

Lars Frode Larsen notes that Hamsun constantly kvetched about being a writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Knut : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

Hamsun was not the only prominent author of that period to embrace the Nazis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up?] Reference

Hamsun was born on Aug. 4, 1860, in one of the sunny valleys of central Norway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

I read all the Hamsun books one semester in the 60s when I dropped out of school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature] Reference

With Hamsun that age seemed to stand principally for the high water mark of passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Autumn Star] Reference

And then I learned that Hamsun, a Nobel prize winner, thought the Nazis were just swell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirty Lives and Times] Reference

As for Hamsun, the writeup is totally silent about his activities during the same period!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up?] Reference

An autobiographical element is evident in practically everything that Hamsun has written.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Autumn Star] Reference

In the following year Hamsun astonished his critics with two books, Ny Jord (New Ground) and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

Hamsun has returned, as it were, to the scene of his passionate youth, but in altered guise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

Never gotten into Auster, which is strange because we share some heroes Hamsun comes to mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maybe Digression’s the Problem : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

The site has one paragraph each devoted to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Hamsun and Sigrid Undset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up?] Reference

In 1890, at the age of thirty, Hamsun attracted attention by the publication of Sult (Hunger).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

The artist and the vagabond seem equally to have been in the blood of Hamsun from the very start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

Michael, I came to Green the same way I came to Hamsun, Svevo and others ... through Wood's essays.    From Wordnik.com.  [IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE] Reference

From what has just been said one might conclude that the spirit of Hamsun is fundamentally unsocial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

But no one that I can recall has equalled Hamsun in his merciless denunciation of the very principle of urbanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

Hamsun appears to think that the less you have of one and the more of the other, the better for yourself and for humanity as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest] Reference

Since “Hunger” was written Hamsun has published over thirty large works — novels, dramas, travel descriptions, essays, and poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shallow Soil] Reference

I wanted to create for someone else, arrogantly, the experience of my being confronted by Hamsun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult] Reference