Word: hamsun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
...Hamsun remembered the abject misery that he found in a lawful, ordered society. His writing gave it voice, and Oscarsson gives it substance-articulating the agonies of all the poor, as when he gags on a bone that he has begged. "Damnation," he cries, "is there nothing one may keep for oneself...