wild-eyed manic ravings starving hysterical-real writer on christiana's cruel streets. my proxy ate up my first review so i'm too bummed to rewrite the 3000 word thing. sometime later.
Also known as 'The Last Joy'Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8445Translated from the Norwegian By PAULA WIKING I have gone to the forest.Not because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men's evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all....
Very reminiscent of a couple of books I have already read, including Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Very dire account of a starving writer trying to find work and food at the same time. Especially interesting to me was the fact that the protagonist still valued maintaining his dignity ov...
The Growth of the Soil is about Isak and the work on his land in the wilds. Over time, he grows more prosperous, there are more people and more technology, but Isak never deviates from his work. He never lets anything change him. There isn't much that really happens, but the book solidifies the mess...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7214Translated by by W. W. WorsterWith an Introduction by Edwin BjörkmanOpening: These last few days I have been thinking and thinking of the Nordland summer, with its endless day. Sitting here thinking of that, and of a hut I lived in, and of the woods behind the hut...
Film time!Per Oscarsson ... PontusGunnel Lindblom ... YlajaliBirgitte Federspiel ... Her sisterKnud Rex ... Landlord=================Autobiography couched in fictionThere is a fundamental root here that keeps me coming back to scenes within The Red Room(1879) by August Strindberg; no, I'm not sayin...
Wow. That was powerful. I have to write a lot of reviews this weekend - this will be one of them.I find it ironic that I read this while the RNC circus is going on in FL. I wish I could force everyone there to read this book and live it. just for a short while.
Hamsun penned an interesting take on the tragic muse tale. However it’s not the story itself that really captures the reader, but how Hamsun digresses from it, through Johannes’ inner musings and the poems and stories that Johannes is writing throughout. It is these sections that transform the basic...
My copy of this book heaps extravagant praise on Hamsun and I began reading with my skeptical faculties on full alert (because there's usually an inverse relationship between the height of the heap of praise and the quality of the book). But this time the accolades are justified.Hamsun, like Ibsen a...
I'm not actually gonna read this. What I'm gonna do is buy it and next time a homeless guy asks me for change I'll be like "Here, I bet you'll really like this book."
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