What's /lit/’s take on Knut Hamsun?

>>24535779 (OP)
One of the greats of the 20th century. Unfortunately a little underrated today.

>>24535779 (OP)
>>24535783
Agree, not everything he wrote is GOAT material. But enough to where its criminal he's pretty much forgotten today.

>>24535779 (OP)
tried reading Growth Of The Soil but got distracted by other reads.

>>24535779 (OP)
>Hunger
Not that great a story. Mainly an interesting read because it's "weird" and because Hamsun's writing style is top level (I read the original)
>Mysteries
I got halfway through and felt that nothing had actually happened, so I quit
>Victoria and Pan
Rather short and really nothing special
>Growth of the Soil
Charming story about a simple life in a rural place that slowly becomes more developed as more people move in

tried hunger a few times, aborted because quite honestly it's not very interesting. everything else i've heard about him makes him sound like a brainlet so i doubt i'm missing much.

Where do I get a pince-nez

>>24535779 (OP)
Hunger should be required reading for any artist/writer

>>24536848
Tries several times to read a 150 page book. Fails

>>24537976
t b h, I understand why someone would stop reading in the second chapter, it's pretty shit

>>24535779 (OP)
Sell me on him.

>>24539440
Can be VERY hit or miss but when he hits I don't think ive read more then 3 writers that cam seriously challenge him

>>24535783
>>24536316
What do you think is worth reading from him?

>>24535779 (OP)
I remember trying to read Wayfarers a few years ago and couldn't finish it.

>>24539440
>>24539856
Ludwig Hohl says he's the kind of writer, in contrast with Balzac, where you read a couple of his books and don't feel the need to read anymore. I felt that way, so I can't comment on his broader work, but Hunger and Pan were very good basically perfect. The problem with Hunger is its a book about a writer. Weinginer said Pan was perhaps the most beautiful novel ever written... I have no problem with that judgement

>>24536316
>its criminal he's pretty much forgotten today.
We know why this is, desu. Same thing happened to Ezra Pound.

>>24540007
>>24536316
He's not forgotten at all, neither is Pound. It doesn't matter if he isn't mentioned in "the New Yorker", and actually he probably is, that Knaussgaard guy has been promoting him

His August trilogy is his best work.
If you've read his letters from America and his travel to the Caucasus mountains it makes perfect sense that he sided with the only non-materialist ideology in ww2.
His sassy comments on Norwegian polar explorers are also funny.

The K is not silent btw, it's not newt but k-nut

>>24540036
Epic

Boring shit like all scandis.

SULT is very very raw.
I can see why a lot of people empathized with it, even Hitler(a starving artist in AustriaGermany for the period)