Le pauvre intelligent était un observateur bien plus fin que le riche intelligent. Le pauvre regarde autour de lui à chaque pas qu'il fait, il écoute soupçonneusement chaque mot qu'il entend dire aux gens qu'il rencontre. Chacun des pas qu'il fait impose de la sorte à ses pensées et ses sentiments u...
Very different from his novel Hunger, here Hamsun has written a sweeping story of one man's accomplishments as a homesteader in northern Norway near the border with Sweden.Isak, a young and very strong man, with no fear of work, goes looking for a good place to settle. He walks and walks, looking fo...
DNFed at 50%.If only I didn't know what happened at the ending... until then it's a story of an impoverished man, a classic struggling artist, wandering in the streets with hunger. Felt very Tropic of Cancer at first, but unlike Miller, the protagonist blames God for all his misery. It is less obsce...
I picked this book up for a goodreads group read—and, honestly, only because it was on the 1001 books list. And I am so glad I did. Originally published in 1890 in Norway, it doesn't feel dated or culturally "different" (to boring American me). It feels like it could be happening now, to the man t...
I was not sure that I would like this work. In part because I know that Hamsun, became a fascist later in his life, and that made me think that we would be temperamentally a poor match. Also, I just read Ibsen for the first time and was disappointed, so I quite unfairly was wary of Hamsun. In fact...
The novel is a harmonious appreciaton of nature by a man in love with the wrong girl. Well, I've added the last three words, probably you will not find them in a strandard description of the plot. A pure personal opinion. And I've not even been right and clear: the protagonist has always loved the n...
"I am being drawn more and more toward the grassy slopes of spring." bookshelves: published-1912, norway, e-book, gutenberg-project, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, winter-20122013 Read from October 19, 2012 to February 10, 2013 Also known as 'The Last Joy'Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/...
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