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Growth of the Soil
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Knut Hamsun
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The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.

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Growth of the Soil
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Knut Hamsun
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9780486118826, 9780486476001
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Dover Publications
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A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. Isak and Inger, an idealistic young couple, reject modern society to raise their family on a back country farm. Isak’s embrace of outdoor life reflects author Knut Hamsun’s attitude of rugged individualism and his back-to-nature philosophy. Rich in symbolism, this moving tale of peasant life and the search for spiritual fulfillment in nature continues to resonate with modern readers. First published in Norwegian in 1917, Growth of the Soil created an international sensation and led to the author’s 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature. The New Yorker noted that “the list of those who loved [Hamsun’s] sly, anarchic voice is long,” naming Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, and André Gide as fans. “I am not usually lavish with my praise,” remarked H. G. Wells, “but indeed the book impresses me as among the very greatest novels I have ever read.”

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Growth of the Soil
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Knut Hamsun
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Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages such as English. The novel was written in the popular style of Norwegian new realism, a movement dominating the early 20th century. The novel exemplified Hamsun’s aversion to modernity and inclination towards primitivism and the agrarian lifestyle. The novel employed literary techniques new to the time such as stream of consciousness. Hamsun tended to stress the relationship between his characters and the natural environment. Growth of the Soil portrays the protagonist (Isak) and his family as awed by modernity, yet at times, they come into conflict with it. The novel contains two sections entitled Book One and Book Two. The first book focuses almost solely on the story of Isak and his family and the second book starts off by following the plight of Axel and ends mainly focusing on Isak’s family.

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