Troubling legacies

Description:

'Troubling Legacies; analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer Knut Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasizes the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction elicited from such figures as Frank Kafka and Walter Benjamin.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Hamsun, knut, 1859-1952,  Norwegian literature, history and criticism

People: Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)