![]() ![]() ![]() If his tolerance be never free from satire, his satire is on the other hand always easily tolerant. Hamsun would seem to take life as it is, not with any pretense at its complete acceptability, but without hope or avowed intention of making it over. Problems do not enter into the novels of Hamsun in the same manner as they did into the plays of Ibsen. What, above all, he hates and combats is the artificial uselessness of existence which to him has become embodied in the life of the city as opposed to that of the country. If he has changed, it is only in the intensity of his feeling and the mode of his attack. ![]() The truth, however, is that Hamsun stands today where he has always stood. The issuance of two such books from the same pen suggests to the superficial view a complete reversal of position. The other celebrates a root-fast existence bounded in every direction by monotonous chores. One expresses the passionate revolt of a homeless wanderer against the conventional routine of modern life. Produced by Tim Becker, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Teamīetween “Hunger” and “Growth of the Soil” lies the time generally allotted to a generation, but at first glance the two books seem much farther apart. ![]()
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