Volume 18, Number 3 · February 24, 1972
Blood and Blossoms
By D.J. Enright
The Cultural Life of Modern America
by Knut Hamsun, edited and translated by Barbara Gordon Morgridge
Harvard University Press, 200 pp., $10.00
Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun, translated by Gerry Bothmer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 340 pp., $8.95
Pan
by Knut Hamsun, translated by James W. McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 192 pp., $4.50
Victoria
by Knut Hamsun, translated by Oliver Stallybrass
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 170 pp., $4.95
Hunger
by Knut Hamsun, translated by Robert Bly
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 255 pp., $6.95
The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun made two visits to the United States in his youth, and after the second, between 1886 and 1888, he wrote The Cultural Life of Modern America (1889). Otherwise a book over which a decent veil had best be dropped, it contains an eccentric criticism of Shakespeare:
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