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LOOK BACK ON HAPPINESS - Knut Hamsun-Coward-McCann...
...Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
Americans think of Norway as a cold slice of northern forest and fjord, of Norwegian writers as weighty (like Sigrid Undset) or gloomy (like Knut Hamsun). But a Norwegian novel published this week is as different from this preconception as its author's startling name. It could have been written in any country of Europe...
Herman Stehr, a kind of German Knut Hamsun, writes about peasants. Hans Grimm is the author of a novel whose enormous length (1,300 pages) belies its title: People Without Room. A Nazi classic, it is often contrasted with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, to Mann's disadvantage...
MONPTI - Gabor Vaszary - Knopf ($2.50). Reminiscent of the early Knut Hamsun, the Paris romance of a poor Hungarian student and an ingenuous coquette. For its full laugh-&-cry flavor, add Chopin accompaniment...