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New edition of J.S. Scott's 1924 English translation of Children of the Age (original title: B�rn av Tiden) by Knut Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun described it as "a novel about the war between the aristocrat and the peasant." The Encyclopedia of the Novel (2014) called it "a historically based--and utterly scathing--critique of modernity." And the Hamsun Centre (Hamsunsenteret) website wrote: "In Children of the Age a family's rise and fall are used to show more describe the decline and fall of a whole epoch. Thematically the novel has similarities to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901), with Hamsun's humour being the stylistic difference between the two." Children of the Age was a commercial success when it was first published in Norway in 1913. Isaac Anderson, writing in The Literary Digest International Book Review (1924), described it as "Hamsun's art at its best," and, while concluding that was "not so great a novel as Growth of the Soil," it had the same epic quality, and "deserves, and undoubtedly will have, a high place among the novels of our time." This new edition is not simply a scan of the original. It has been completely reformatted and redesigned. Spelling errors and other typos that appeared in the original Alfred A. Knopf edition have been corrected. show lessTags
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Vi befinner oss i den nordnorske bygda Segelfoss på slutten av 1800-tallet. Herren på Segelfoss, Willats Holmsen, er ulykkelig gift og de to ektefellene står meget langt fra hverandre. Holmsen har lenge vært bygdas rikeste mann, men samfunnet er i endring fra jordbruk til industri. Husmenn begynner så smått å bli jordeiere, og føydalherrens posisjon er ikke lenger like selvsagt.
Da Holmengrå, den rike oppkomplingen, kommer tilbake fra Mexico og setter i gang en rekke virksomheter, forsterkes utviklingen i bygda og rokker ytterligere ved vedtatte normer om hvem som betyr noe.
Hamsun er bitende sarkastisk i sin beskrivelse av Holmsen, som krampaktig gjør det han kan for å skjule at økonomien er heller anstrengt, og hans frykt show more for å miste sin posisjon i lokalsamfunnet. Innimellom dukker det opp en del bipersoner, og morsomt er beskrivelsen av jomfruen som arbeider hos Holmsen, og hennes skarpe tunge.
Selv om dette ikke er blant de mest sentrale av Hamsuns verker, mener jeg boka fortjener en 5´er. Oppleseren Nils Johnson er på sitt mest glitrende i denne romanen! show less
Da Holmengrå, den rike oppkomplingen, kommer tilbake fra Mexico og setter i gang en rekke virksomheter, forsterkes utviklingen i bygda og rokker ytterligere ved vedtatte normer om hvem som betyr noe.
Hamsun er bitende sarkastisk i sin beskrivelse av Holmsen, som krampaktig gjør det han kan for å skjule at økonomien er heller anstrengt, og hans frykt show more for å miste sin posisjon i lokalsamfunnet. Innimellom dukker det opp en del bipersoner, og morsomt er beskrivelsen av jomfruen som arbeider hos Holmsen, og hennes skarpe tunge.
Selv om dette ikke er blant de mest sentrale av Hamsuns verker, mener jeg boka fortjener en 5´er. Oppleseren Nils Johnson er på sitt mest glitrende i denne romanen! show less
Sep 7, 2008Norwegian
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Knut Pedersen Hamsun was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway on August 4, 1859 and grew up in poverty in Hamarøy. At the age of 17, he became an apprentice to a ropemaker and also began to dabble in writing. This eventually became his full-time career. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including The Intellectual Life of Modern America, show more Hunger, and Pan. In 1920, his novel Growth of the Soil, a book describing the attraction and honesty of working with the land, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Occupation of Norway during World War II, Hamsun was charged with treason for his affiliation with the party after the war ended. His property was seized, he was placed under psychiatric observation, and his last years were spent in poverty. He died on February 19, 1952. A 15-volume compilation of his complete works was published posthumously in 1954. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Barn av tiden
- Original title
- Børn av tiden
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- 1913
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