Norsk litteratur tråd

[Anonymous No.10041445]

Favorite Norwegian books and authors?

[Anonymous No.10041451]

henger meg i morgen gutta

[Anonymous No.10042671]

Bump

Any Norwegian authors that anons would recommend that aren't the typical answers we get every thread?

[Anonymous No.10042800]

Besides the obvious (Ibsen, Hamsun, Knausgård), here are a couple of authors that I know of:
Peter Christen Asbjornsen
Sigrid Undset
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Erlend Loe
Jo Nesbo

[Anonymous No.10042822]

>>10042671
Garborg

[Anonymous No.10042826]

>>10041445

Hamsun, always and forever.

[Anonymous No.10042838]

>>10042826
I hope you read his actually good novels instead of just his early modern meme novels

[Anonymous No.10042846]

>>10042838
what are the good novels you dingus

[Anonymous No.10042856]

>>10042846
Novels written after 1904 as well as his travelogues and non-fiction writing.

[Anonymous No.10042865]

>>10041445
>Norsk litteratur tråd

[Anonymous No.10042872]

>>10042838

And which are which, do you think?

I think that Pan and Mysteries are his best. Maybe you consider those modern memes, but a prose that so masterfully captures madness, love, and lyrical musings on nature isn't to be found in any other works I've read. The August Trilogy and Growth of the Soil are great as well, sure, but I don't find them as great - maybe it's because I'm young.

I think Benoni/Rosa is funny, but not nearly on the same level of poetic beauty and passion as the aforementioned. There's the warm irony towards the folly of Benoni that Hamsun is great at, but it's not as warm as the one he uses to criticize the modern folly of August in the August trilogy. His semi-self-biographical trilogy has its moments of brilliance, but gets progressively worse as they leave the lyricism further and further behind and become more cynical.

And that's actually part of the reason why I haven't read Ringen Sluttet. I hear it's cynical, and I don't want Hamsun to be cynical.

[Anonymous No.10042880]

>>10042856

Did he write any other travelogues than in Wonderland? I agree that's great, but it's great because of the lyricism and romanticism. Those are the elements he more and more eschews in his post-1904 oeuvre in favour of a more articulated critique of modernism, which he does well, no doubt. I still think that the implicit critique of modernism in his youth novels is much greater, much more poignant, because it gives you a real, visceral sense of its alienating effects.

[Anonymous No.10042887]

>>10042872
My personal favorites are Den Sidste Glæde, Markens Grode, August and Ringen Sluttet. But really I like his non-fiction best, På Gjengrodde Stier is honestly my actual favorite book of his.

Note that I have no idea what any of this is like in english though.

[Anonymous No.10042898]

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[Anonymous No.10043456]

>>10041445
>Norsk litteratur tråd
It's supposed to be a compound you fucking nigger

[Anonymous No.10043464]

>>10041445
kill knausgård