Regret is a shabby thing
Bernard Porter: Knut Hamsun, 27 May 2010
Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter
by Ingar Sletten Kolloen, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, September 2009,978 0 300 12356 2 Show More
by Ingar Sletten Kolloen, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, September 2009,
Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
by Monika Zagar.
Washington, 343 pp., £19.99, May 2009,978 0 295 98946 4 Show More
by Monika Zagar.
Washington, 343 pp., £19.99, May 2009,
“... If Knut Hamsun is remembered at all in Britain – he never really caught on here – it is as the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer who became a Nazi, and a betrayer of his country during the Second World War. For the majority of his compatriots, suffering under the German occupation and yet still, many of them, courageously resisting it, this fall from national hero to traitor was hard to fathom, and even harder to stomach ... ”
