Knut Hamsun
Norwegian author and Nobel laureate who is considered the father of modern psychological literature. Hunger and Pan established new modes of interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness that profoundly influenced later modernist writers.
Works
- HungerNovel of a destitute man's psychological descent and existential desperation in city
- PanNovella of a hermit's brooding isolation and mysterious relationship with a young woman
- Growth of the SoilNovel celebrating primitive agricultural life and man's harmony with Norwegian soil
- MysteriesNovel of a stranger's cryptic arrival in town revealing hidden human contradictions
- VictoriaNovella of a man's tender love for a woman he cannot possess or fully understand