The Cultural Life of Modern America book offers a critical examination of American culture, with a particular focus on its literary landscape. The story is largely based on Hamsun’s personal experiences during his short and somewhat disappointing visit to America in the late 19th century.
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Knut Hamsun
Hunger, in 1890, narrates a starving writer walking around Kristiania in a voice that abandoned realism entirely, and Kafka, Hemingway, Thomas Mann and Isaac Bashevis Singer all named it as a beginning. The Nobel came in 1920 for Growth of the Soil. Then Hamsun backed…
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