I really liked Hunger by this guy, but where to go from here? Is there a chart?

I really liked Hunger by this guy, but where to go from here? Is there a chart?

>Hamsun

...just... wow

None of his novels are political. Go for Mysteries, then Pan, OP.

he's a LITERAL nazi. he LITERALLY supported national socialism and literally met with hitler

/ourguy/

And? Disregarding talent just because of political views is retarded.

Will do, thanks.

Hamsun is one of my favourite authors. You can go anywhere from Sult, so I would recommend that you dive in his work depending on your interests

>Mysteries
Perhaps the work that is more similar to Hunger, again he tries to show the inner workings of the mind and how they move human conduct and relationships.

>Pan
Very short, very lyrical work. The protagonist is a hunter that lives in a cabin and becomes sort of a personification of nature in his hunts and walks through the forest. If you liked To the Lighthouse you will love this one. Probably my favourite by him.

>Victoria
Again very short and very lyrical. An absolutely heart wrenching love story between the son of a miller and the lady of the castle.

>Growth of the Soil
Longer work, which won him the Nobel prize. I suggest you tackle this one once you've read a couple of books by him. Tells the story of the foundation of a village from the point of view of the settler that first tamed the wilderness. The plot has a focus on the mundane and on the struggle of man against nature (or rather, the connection between them). Has a 100 years of Solitude feel at some points.

Honestly OP, tackle him in any way you want. Everything that he wrote is definetly worth your time

fuck off

t. social democrat


you going to avoid burroughs, wylde etc because they were pedo's

Guys please ignore the bait and discuss the works of the author. Don't turn this thread into a political shitfest.

Has anyone read the wanderer triology? I want to read it this summer, but On Overgrown Paths has recently been printed into a nice Spanish edition (based Nórdica Libros) and I don't know if I should pick that up instead.

Pan, Mysteries, Growth of the Soil and Victoria are all worth reading but Victoria is probably the weakest, other three comes highly recommended.
Not sure why Hunger is so memed, yeah it's great, but,Hamsun has other solid works in his output.

>Not sure why Hunger is so memed
I actually wonder the same thing myself. Hunger makes it into every yearly Veeky Forums list, but Hamsun has plenty of other great works

I really enjoyed Growth of the Soil. Had a very cozy, family feel. Haven't read any of his other works yet. I may try Hunger next.

I agree hamsun is great, but I disagree with your descriptions, particularly pan and GotS

Hunger is great but it's the exact opposite of cozy and familiar.
Think more along the lines of Notes from the Underground

Please do elaborate.
I read GotS a long time ago so my memory may be hazy.

It's been a few years for me too, so take this with a grain of salt.
I remember it being less of a struggle between man and nature than a struggle between a man of nature struggling with an encroaching modern society.
Isak is a man of nature, almost God-like, who tames the wilderness and lives with it. Then you see society creeping in with him having to obtain legal ownership of land he's tilled for years, dealing with miners, his son choosing a different more modern life, the shitty "farmer" neighbors, etc.
It's about the last of a dying breed seeing the modern world surround and suffocate him (metaphorized by him seeing the apparation of the devil in his forest near the end of the book).

You are absolutely right, and that's why I (unsuccesfully) tried to backtrack myself after I said it's about man's fight with nature,
Good point about the devil too, I never thought of it this way but it makes perfect sense.

Why do you think inger killed her babies?
I really should re-read GotS soon, it is a great book... So different than his earlier books.

It's because anglos only read his early modernist works, while Germans and Nordics seems to favor his later romantic works.

Never mind I remember the girl had a hair lip like her mother and she didn't want her to live that life

It was basically an old school abortion.

Yes. If I remember right the woman that often wandered into Sellanraa (can't remember her name, the same that stole the veal that always gave birth to twins from them) brought them a hare, which is implied to have something to do with the hare-lip.

Bump for papa Knut

Cómpralo.

I saw a second hand edition of Women at the pump. Has anyone read it? Is it any good?