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In any event, if I did read this in my own “circa 20s” gee, was I once something? He carries a sack, the first sack, containing provisions for the road and some implements. It is an old conundrum that cannot be avoided: The other two are optional and vary depending on the book: So the novel reconstructs the most primordial and unconscious poietic process that makes human existence possible: I also wouldn’t have minded had he at least been consistent about his lauding and condemnations.
H’m, I don’t know. Loved the setting, the various character types, the morality, the petty power ploys, the longing for more than life in the woods, the vision of the devil with shivering pines nearby, the mines, Inger’s randiness, the fallen tree, the big stone toward the end, the infanticides and the overall overarching transcendent theme about achieving eternal life through cultivation of self, society, and soil.
However, if you want to convince me of positives of bucolic living, making a big deal out of certain issues at the expense of others that I hold close to my heart is not the way to do it. To express something of what this relationship consists of stretches the limits of representation to the max.
And it is perhaps simple to see the connections: Understanding the dynamics of remote farmer communities is still relevant, and Hamsun’s sharp perceptions and colorful descriptions open up a a strangely closed world and make it accessible to a wider, international audience.
The point of this review is that one can, and should, abstain from this type of analysis. The meanings ppan which we truly live, Hamsun poignantly suggests, lie buried inside.
I named my farm Sellanraa in honor of Isak the man who builds his home and raises a family out of nothing. Civilization always comes along to ruin it.
Knut Hamsun
As ahmbre general rule, people don’t sympathize with fascists – but one can try to understand why to feel what they do. What is her baking like? El Centro de 2. I’m descended from farmers, as far back as our genealogy can tell. Hamsun was a massive literary inspiration to many of his contemporaries, being highly praised by authors such as Hemingway, Hesse and even Bukowski, and his luckily novels do not reflect this unflattering political alignment.
Men inut the laws; we women have no influence on this. This is a book of survival but with a man who is so happy with his new found state.
Those two understood the attraction and oppression of life lived on the harsh limits, dictated by nature’s ce volatility, and by a small community’s shared values and superstitions, as well as power structures and intolerance, based on fear of things unknown.
That remembrance in itself can be a guide, however the outward forms of life we make for ourselves may change under the vicissitudes of “progress.
Unlike Independent Peopleall of his work bears fruit to an extraordinary degree, as does everyone and everything else around him so long as it submits to his way of living. Do Hamsun’s Nazi sympathies detract from the story’s morals? The copy he gave me had once belonged to Norma M. Books about lives close to nature are something I like but you need to have a plot in there somewhere.
Consider Woolf’s The Waves: It pulls you captive right at its powerful first paragraph, then pins you down helpless, your eyes riveted towards one beautiful page hamssun another, in all, an unending chorus of debilitating prose that would make you weak on your knees. The cornerstone of this novel are the cares and characteristics of one Isak: With the exception of the above quote, such an analysis of “Growth of the Soil” would only prove to be an exercise in confirmation bias.
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
What I enjoyed was the easy pace, the healthy tendrils of culturally rich storyline, the understated poetry of humans fully committed to their landscape. Then I came across passages that made the writer even more suspect: There is a progressive tendency in modern thought towards exploring lived knowledge, as opposed to theoretical, abstract knowledge, and Hamsun’s narrative technique lends itself really well to revealing one angle of this much larger epistemic momentum.
Lists with This Book. Somehow, they feel threatened instead of comforted by this other culture.
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The author later became a fascist reactionary – highly critical of this modern lifestyle. The world seemed to stand still for a moment, until the flock had disappeared.
To ask other readers questions about Growth of the Soilplease sign up. Comentarios JavaScript is required to load the comments. What I enjoyed was 3. He cultivates land, does a little building, acquires livestock and tells a mnut Lapp that he would like to meet a woman.