Description
A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy. A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as 'Blood and Blossoms'.
A novel of desire and unfulfilled love, by the Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun.
About the Author
Knut Hamsun was the most influential writer of the late nineteenth century, creating a new literary style and a new literary type, the alienated outsider (typified in Mysteries), which became defining elements of modernism. In Growth of the Soil he created a novel of Biblical power, while Dreamers shows the gentler comic side of his imagination. Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 and died in 1952.
Book Information
ISBN 9780285647596
Author Knut Hamsun
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Souvenir Press Ltd
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
A novel of desire and unfulfilled love, by the Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun.
About the Author
Knut Hamsun was the most influential writer of the late nineteenth century, creating a new literary style and a new literary type, the alienated outsider (typified in Mysteries), which became defining elements of modernism. In Growth of the Soil he created a novel of Biblical power, while Dreamers shows the gentler comic side of his imagination. Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 and died in 1952.
Book Information
ISBN 9780285647596
Author Knut Hamsun
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Souvenir Press Ltd
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
