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...Knut Hamsun, 83, No. 1 Norwegian novelist and No. 1 intellectual pro-Nazi, had always bruised easily. So when Norwegians heard that he had suffered a stroke, some thought they knew the reason. For years his countrymen had loved his books (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On). But now those books, which had once nudged bibles on Norwegian bookshelves, were boycotted; dog-eared copies were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra...
Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...
...generations -of plants, of animals, of themselves - feel that they are part of a never-ending process of creation, deriving from the past, foreshadowing the future. This feeling makes them crudely mystical, stolidly enduring, slow to change, suspicious of the nervous life and fidgety minds of cities. Knut Hamsun understood that being a peasant is not just a rural occupation, but a complete way of living and thinking, with which he sympathized. Moberg understands the peasant's life too, but does not sympathize. He has ideas for the country side of the future. But Moberg the writer...
Norway's patriarch of letters, hardbitten Nobel Prizewinner (Growth of the Soil) Knut Hamsun, 80, turned on his Government for continuing to oppose the Nazi invasion. Cried Writer Hamsun in Oslo: "The Government ordered mobilization, then fled. Norwegian youths now die for that 'Government...
...essence, the "I" who tells Look Back On Happiness is 79-year-old Knut Hamsun himself, as fierce and fine an old man as ever declined to batten on the adulation of fools. And his novel is less a novel than a devoutly unpretentious rec ord of things he values, or despises...