Title: Knut Hamsun, novelist : a critical assessment /
Authors: Lyngstad, Sverre
Publisher: P. Lang,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Hamsun, Knut, Criticism and interpretation.
Contents: Modernist breakthrough and absurdist experiment -- Satiric interlude: roman à clef and polemical melodrama -- Two lyrical novels -- Love's comedy and sentimental education -- A counter-development triptych: ironic pastoral, rustic Bohemia, bucolic fantasy -- Nostalgic myth and critique of modernity: novels of social change -- Growth of the soil: primitivist epic or utopian fantasy? -- A universe of chance: from the bizarre to the macabre -- Toward a contrapuntal novel: romantic nostalgia versus pseudo-Faustian adventure -- The human comedy: satiric fantasy and mock apocalypse -- Absurdism revisited.