/lit/ - Literature

>>9978246
tfw you bust your Knut but the starvation lingers corrupting you.

>>8999691
say that to my face fucker and not online and see what happens

>I felt the hunger echoing in my stomach...

Fuck you, Flatlander.

Can we talk about Knut Hamsun?

I think he's extremely under-appreciated. I'm sure it's because of his association with Nazism, but that doesn't detract from the value of his work, in my opinion.

After reading a lot of his stuff—particularly Hunger, Mysteries, and Pan—I think he's on par with Dostoevsky.

Me too bro. Even that failure of a tryst between the protagonist and Ylailai in Hunger was too much for my wizard feels

If not on /lit/ than /r9k/ or /pol/

Hunger was the most aimless and repititive work of fiction I read in recent memory. Could someone explain the appeal? It was like Kafka without the allegory or Nausea without the overarching imagery. Also this guy looks like a Bond villain.

What is good of his? I've already read Hunger, Pan, and just ordered Growth of the Soil.

>Has he written other cool stuff?
>What other authors are like him?

Can we discuss this terrific Scandinavian author? What's your favorite Hamsun novel?

I haven't looked over /pol/'s list, but I imagine they just included pretty much anyone remotely racist. Anyway, most artists tend to be left-wing, but in the past (pre-WWII), the relationship between art and left-wing politics was a lot weaker. Off the top of my head, here are some examples of prominent right-wing authors:

Fyodor Dostoevsky
H.P. Lovecraft
Charles Baudelaire
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Knut Hamsun
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ernst Junger
D.H. Lawrence
Vladimir Nabokov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nikolai Gogol
Evelyn Waugh
H.L. Mencken