Rather, Brandes would say to Norwegian readers: "Here is a new and distinguished Norwegian prose writer, a man who thinks independently, who is already important and will become greater. Hamsun explained, writing Rasmus B. Anderson in 1886, "You were right, Professor. 1920 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Verdens Gang, he thought, displayed better balance in its coverage of American news.An examination of Ragnar Vold’s excellent inside story of Dagbladet suggests that the Hoist-Hamsun relationship did not suffer from Hamsun’s cavalier remarks about the land across the sea. So concerned was he en route about his health that he often left the railroad coach, just behind the locomotive, to breathe fresh air, and on the sea, air was no problem. He said that Hamsun denounced the very principle of urbanity. {39}In Redaktør Lynge (Editor Lynge) , Hamsun chose Thommessen as his central character. {16}Stavanger Amstidende og Adresseavis, edited by L. C. Kielland, Jr., published in two installments a lecture given in Christiania by Arctander, now returned from abroad. Land still available for homesteads was far removed from population centers. Philip Armour’s gift was not an exception. It was a congregation of sound personalities. Perhaps his readers there were not aware of his satirical and argumentative personality. What he appreciated, if restrainedly, was American journalism, which was daring and close to life, and paintings of nature scenes.According to Tore, his father’s intention was not to present an objective analysis of American society and culture, but to employ a consciously subjective approach. In it a number of literary lights paid tribute, among them John Galsworthy, Thomas Mann, Thomas Masaryk, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, and H. G. Wells. Bjørnson had invited him to visit him at Aulestad for a year! Their gripping literary style and penetrating intellectual quality won widespread admiration from experts conversant with the Norwegian language.A final observation or two will complete this evaluation. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 was awarded to Knut Pedersen Hamsun "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil ". He learned to grit his teeth, says his son, a lesson that was to be useful in the coming years. Tonight I am heavy with wealth and honour – yes indeed, but I am lacking in the most important thing of all, the only thing, I am lacking in youth. {28}Among the more thorough reviews of Hamsun’s Fra det moderne Amerikas aandsliv was an unsigned criticism in Aftenposten. asked Hamsun. In the absence of extradition laws between Canada and the United States, crooked bank employees escaped into the dominion. Minneapolis had no less than 146 congregations of various denominations. But the reviewer did not follow Hamsun in his critical remarks about Shakespeare, who was taken [191] to task for being out of date in his understanding of human psychology. Hamsun’s book was well written. Later, in 1885, a printer inadvertently omitted the "d" from Hamsund.
Some editors and critics, with unconcealed glee, found support in Hamsun. {5}After a miserable winter in Christiania, 1879—80 (the basis of his novel, Hunger) , Hamsun took to road construction work in eastern Norway, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of America. {3}Now about fifteen years of age, Hamsun made his way back to the family home in Hamarøy, where for the next five years, 1874—79, he had various jobs and assisted the local lensmand (sheriff) . A man of his aristocratic nature did not find the right climate of opinion or [192] custom in the free states. He had no quarrel with the young author’s degrading picture of America. NobelPrize.org. He could see Armour at his desk, busy with a mountain of papers. If a man’s achievements are in large measure the outcome of his childhood ambitions and experiences, Knut Hamsun may well serve as an example. {37}Tore Hamsun continued that his father was not comfortable with the majority.
{20}Hamsun, sensitive to the treatment of aliens, observed that the Yankees called all Scandinavians Swedes. There was no need to import news of the recurrent railroad accidents. An author who favored monarchy over republicanism would be run out of the country.
They had emigrated for economic reasons, and by the time they had achieved a degree of financial security they had lost the incentive to learn. Spring was affecting his nerves again, he complained. Jorgenson indicates that the money was furnished by the father of Frøis Frøisland, the editor; Norwegian Literature, 394. He felt that his childhood had been blighted by their influence. Hamsun explained that he was, not for a relative, but for the Haymarket anarchists. As poetic writing, Leaves of Grass was discordant. May 19, 2016 - Nobelprize.org, The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
{21}Conceptions of freedom were not as simon-pure as Norwegian journals represented them to be. The only foreigners who commanded respect were the British.
The bomb thrower in the Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, was not identified. {27}Hamsun’s concluding pages gave Yankee culture a rough going over.
{23}In Hamsun’s opinion, no better illustration could be found to describe the American system of justice than the Haymarket case. He was so patriotic that he measured intellectual achievement by the degree to which America understood Norway. Knut Pedersen Hamsun The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 Born: 4 August 1859, Lom, Norway Died: 19 February 1952, Grimstad, Norway Residence at the time of the award: Norway Prize motivation: "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil."