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Hunger by Knut Hamsun

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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What do we do about Knut Hamsun? Should we honor him as a Nobel Prize winner in literature? Was he, as some claim, the first great modernist in fiction? Or was he just recycling Dostoevsky for a Nordic audience? Should he be honored as a national hero, or ought we to despise him as one of Hitler’s apologists, a fanatic who was arrested for treason after…

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