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What do you think of Pan?

IMO, one of the greatest literary accounts of falling in love.

>> No.2874413

I love it, one of my favorite endings ever.

>> No.2874470

nazi bastard

sage this thread

>> No.2874475

>>2874470

>implying the author and his work can't be separated

>> No.2874477
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2874477

Everything Hamsun wrote is excellent.

>>2874470

Do you know what website you're on?

>> No.2874478

>>2874477
>implying 4chan is for nazis
fuck off and DIE

>> No.2874481

>>2874475
Shut up, Roland

>> No.2874483

>>2874470
>implying he wasn't senile as fuck by that point

>> No.2874488

>>2874483
sorry didn't realise he was old as fuck and the norwegian doctors actually diagnosed him insane

carry on.

>> No.2874494

>>2874488
/lit/ is clearly a place where rigorous posting standards apply.

>> No.2874496

>>2874488
You do know he was declared a Nazi simply because he hated England, right?

He even got to meet Hitler in person, where he proceeded to ridicule him.

>> No.2874504

>>2874496
it doesnt say that on wikipedia. It says he sent goebbels his nobel prize and wrote hitlers eulogy.

did hate hitler before he went mad? it's always the best ones who go mad in the most tragic way

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2874507

Both Pan and Victoria are fine. Not sure what I think about Sult (hunger) though... a very strange book. A fresh breath in terms of character motivation, that's for sure. Going to read "Growth of the soil" soon.
Also, some pasta floating around on /lit:


Hamsun argued that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". He is considered the leader of the Neo-Romantic revolt at the turn of the century, and is found to be one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years. He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, and Ernest Hemingway.

Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect—his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun". Ernest Hemingway stated that "Hamsun taught me to write".

The epic work Growth of the Soil (1917) earned him the Nobel Prize.

>> No.2874520

>>2874504
I'll try to find a source on it, don't remember where I read it - but supposedly he began criticizing him, and were thrown out.

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>>2874478

lol look at this butt mad jew. get in the oven!

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>>2874556
Not cool bro

>> No.2874577

>>2874507
Growth of the Soil isn't that great, his stuff from the late 1800s is way better.

>> No.2874580

>>2874575
....Is that what I think it is?? Murrican here and what is this???

>> No.2874588

>>2874580

It's the new Holocaust memorial in Berlin

>> No.2874666

>>2874556
i remember my first summer on 4chan

>> No.2874680

>>2874580
what did you think it was? from above it looks like pixels, maybe that popular brick building game

>> No.2875702

>>2874680

>> No.2875708

Pan is another classic I have read

Good

>> No.2875737

>>2875708

>implying people read classics just for the sake of it

>> No.2875803

>>2875737
You want to listen to the best classical music ever produced.

You want to view the best classical paintings, architecture, and sculptures ever created.

Yet it is strange to want to read the best classic literature ever written.

Ok

>> No.2876115

>>2874504

The German wikipedia only says that he was put in a retirement home AFTER the war, diagnosed as "mentally weakened" and into a mental institution for a short time.

Later he got diagnosed as "permanently mentally weakened", which he (himself) refuted though.

I don't think you can defend him on grounds of being "insane", especially because he was pretty pro-German even before WWI.

>> No.2876161

It's weird how romanticist ideas translate into authoritarinism so often.