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,
“... as for his Anglophobia, which was correspondingly extreme. He felt he owed Germany, literally. Monika Žagar was provoked to write Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side to counter the ‘whitewashing’ of Hamsun which, as she sees it, continues to this day. Included in her indictment are Jan Troell’s 1996 biopic of his later years, Hamsun, with Max von Sydow ... ”
