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CHAPTER THE LAST-Knut Hamsun- Knopf...
...Author Hamsun and Publisher Knopf have produced some 15 Hamsun novels in the U. S. Chapter The Last is laid in the Torahus Sanatorium. There is The Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters...
...which she has already given to charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards?one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...
...WOMEN AT THE PUMP - Knut Hamsun-Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater-Knopf...
...Knut Hamsun, life rings true not so much in cataclysmic passions-love, hate, pride-as in lesser foibles, jealousies, spite, prevarication, occasional kindness. His meticulous record of pettiness is intense in its authenticity, disheartening in its cumulative drabness...