Ebook {Epub PDF} The Cultural Life of Modern America by Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, spent a short and unhappy time in America during the late nineteenth century and recorded his experiences in . About the author () Knut Pedersen Hamsun was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway on August 4, and grew up in poverty in Hamarøy. At the age of 17, he Author: Knut Hamsun. Hamsun was commissioned to write From the Cultural Life of Modern America () by his publisher, Philipsen. Having heard Hamsun give a lecture on America in which he promoted a view of that country very much at odds with the prevailing notion of it as the society of the future, Philipsen saw the potential for a controversial and commercially successful book.

The cultural life of modern America Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter The cultural life of modern America by Hamsun, Knut, ; Morgridge, Barbara Gordon, ed. Publication date Topics United States -- Intellectual life, United States -- Foreign public opinion, Norwegian Publisher Cambridge, Mass. Polecaj historie. The Cultural Life of Modern America [Reprint ed.] Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, spent a short and unhappy time in America during the late nineteenth cent. 21 27MB Read more. Writing in his book On the Cultural Life of Modern America, The Life of Knut Hamsun, London, , p). Hamsun also developed an early awareness of the Jewish problem, believing that "anti-Semitism" inevitably existed in all lands where there were Jews -- following Semitism "as the effect follows the cause.".

The Cultural Life of Modern America: Author: Knut Hamsun: Editor: Barbara Gordon Morgridge: Translated by: Barbara Gordon Morgridge: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Harvard University Press, Hamsun was commissioned to write From the Cultural Life of Modern America () by his publisher, Philipsen. Having heard Hamsun give a lecture on America in which he promoted a view of that country very much at odds with the prevailing notion of it as the society of the future, Philipsen saw the potential for a controversial and commercially successful book. The Cultural Life of Modern America by Knut Hamsun was published on October 1, by Harvard University Press.