I will meme this Nazi into /lit/'s culture

Recently read Hunger, starting on Victoria. Where to next?

>>9072324
Growth of the soil

>>9072319
Please dont. Hes too good to become a meme

>>9072324

Mysteries and Pan. >>9072325 is his mature work and is best read in the context of his youth novels, the most notable of which are Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and Victoria.

Personally I think Mysteries is his best.

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He's already part of it. I think everyone on /lit/ can agree that his work is masterful.
He also mailed his Nobel prize to Goebbels and was said to be one of the only people with the ability to keep up in arguments with Hitler, and that he actually pissed Hitler off numerous times when arguing.

Growth of the soil and Hunger are easily two of the best books I've ever read

>>9072465
>He also mailed his Nobel prize to Goebbels and was said to be one of the only people with the ability to keep up in arguments with Hitler, and that he actually pissed Hitler off numerous times when arguing.

Why bring this up?

>>9072477
Because It's a nice anecdote. Why not?

>>9072480
Nice in what way?

Read On Overgrown Paths for his own take on the nazis and all that. Great read in itself, where he describes the fall from nationally renowned author to being viewed as a silly, senile old man. My favorite after the August-triology.

>>9072482
Nice as in France, keep up.

>>9072482
Jesus Christ, just shut the fuck up.

>>9072484
>>9072488

>Semantics are unimportant

>>9072482
Nice, in that it puts him in a time and a place, while also directly connecting him to one of the most historically important and influential people to have ever lived.

>>9072499
i still fail to see why you used the word "Nice" in that context.

>>9072504
How was it not a nice anecdote?

>>9072504
Nice: Pleasant; agreeable; satisfactory.

the story was pleasant to someone without that knowledge, and his sharing it was agreeable, and i find that pleasantness in itself, satisfactory.

ITT: (((Someone))) getting triggered from the mere mention of Hitler.

>>9072511
It was a fact, with a subjective adjective added. Ask the poster.

>>9072512
How did you come to the word "pleasant"?

>>9072512
Shut the fuck up you pedantic fucking loser.
How was it not satisfactory? It satisfied me.

>>9072514
It was objectively a nice and well choosen anecdote since it put Knut into a historical context, like >>9072499 said.
I don't understand why you are so triggered. You know, you don't have to agree with Knut or Adolf ideologically to think of it as a nice anecdote.

>>9072514
pleasant: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.

It gave me a sense of happy satisfaction to know something that I did not. To quench the thirst for knowledge is one of the sweetest things I know, anon. Now, to quench my thirst for knowledge in regards to why you're being such a faggot right now, please, give me a nice anecdote.

>>9072530
Prove to me the anecdote was objectively "nice".

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>>9072547

>>9072568
The burden of proof is on you, making the claim.

>>9072465

Yeah. His first meeting with Hitler didn't exactly play out like Hitler wanted it. Hitler considered it bestowing a boon by giving a meeting to some of his favorite artists, Hamsun showed up with a list of demands for Norway.

But anyway, if you like Hunger, I'd very much recommend Mysteries. Pan as well - it has some of the best prose about nature I've read outside of Turgenev's short stories.

>>9072580
i'm satirizing your pedantry, anon. if you had a sense of humor, you may have responded in a different way.

>>9072603
If you had a better way of satirising I might have comprehended it.

>>9072319
But /lit/ already sucks Hamsun's dick.

>>9072324
Pan

>>9072615
prove that you didn't comprehend.

>>9072615
If autism hurt you'd be on a morphine IV.

Am I the only one that considers Hunger one of his worst novels?

I mean I can totally see how influential it was to modernists, but late Hamsun>>>early Hamsun

This thread is pure autism.

>>9072639

Which later works apart from Growth of the Soil do you find better and why?

I'm firmly of the opposite opinion, though I'll agree that Hunger isn't his best by a long shot. Mysteries and Pan, both from the early 1890's, I consider some of his finest work. The prose of both is phenomenal, and I think it's much richer and evocative than in Growth of the Soil. GotS holds a dear place in my heart because it is such a simple and powerful allegory, but I still think the early work is better. Maybe it's because I'm young and the restlessness, frenetic energy and anomie resonates more with me. Who knows.

He went from /r9k/ to /pol/ as he matured.

>>9072684
On a second thought, you might be right. I thought that Pan and Victoria were from his late period. I have not read Mysteries yet, but it's definetly on my list

>>9072580
S-Sam?

>>9072643
You made it so.

He doesn't need memeing.
He is already a well established author on /lit/.
Lurk moar.

Has anyone read On Overgrown Paths? Is it worth reading?

>>9073450
Not really

Only hunger

>People in this thread have only read Hunger, Pan, Mysteries, Victoria and Growth of the Soil

pls /lit/, i had faith in you

>>9072419
>Personally I think Mysteries is his best.

It sure is.