Knut Hamsun
Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.74 | 5210 Users | 324 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Victoria: En kjærlighedshistorie |
| ISBN: | 0285647598 (ISBN13: 9780285647596) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose". so i shrugged and went away.
i only read this because it is used in one of the most emotionally wrenching scenes in the kjaerstad trilogy, so you would think this would also drip with melancholy goo. not so.
it's good, it is just more restrained in its writing than what i usually go for in this type of narrative. and i have read two other books by him, it's not like i was expecting heaving bosoms and passionate speeches, but i just couldn't find anything to grab onto. they all kind of act like bratty teenagers, whose emotions flail up and down and then end in eye-pokings. it would be comical if it wasn't also so sad.
but the bottom line, and this is the bottom line in many books by my beloved thomas hardy as well: why don't you just talk to each other? without lying?? it would just make everyone happier in the end.
that is my lesson to characters everywhere, and it is my advice to you on the internet. go forth.
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| Title | : | Victoria |
| Author | : | Knut Hamsun |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2001 by Souvenir Press (first published 1898) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 5210 Users | 324 ReviewsPiece Based On Books Victoria
This has some marvelous emotions and wonderful use of technique, but I just didn't care for it as much as I did "Hunger." It just doesn't seem like the same kind of effort, the same level of Hamsun laying himself into the work. It's pretty, but it doesn't have the same raw power that "Hunger" does. Of course, maybe it's just more delicate and I'm just not appreciating the delicacies as much, but that's my reaction.I rather liked this more than his Pan or Mysteries as the story is more sad than absurdist. Implicit to it is a criticism of capitalist class structures, reminiscent of his Hunger.
You could write off the title character as little more than a meagre strumpet,Toying around with male affections like a sambo plays the trumpet.But Hamsun, that master of the soul, turns it all the way around,So Victoria's character is revealed as something lambent and profound.Hamsun's Nietzschean contempt for the upper classes of his day, Which would later lead him to favour the meritocratic NS way,Caused him to parody decadent cucks in this early but excellent bookWritten in 1898...lest his
Who am I to say that a Nobel prize winning author is just phoning it in? Especially since Ive yet to find real enjoyment in Hamsuns writing? If I had just picked this book up and read it I wouldnt have enjoyed it too much, its a tad bit too melodramatic with a bit of the coldness of say Strindberg and the inexplicable manly rage of DH Lawrences male characters (but not their latent gayness, which maybe Ill share my theory on this at some other time in a DH Lawrence review). Can I say that the
Love became the worlds beginning and the worlds ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood. The passions and desires of young love, and the frustration of love torn apart by society, is a source of considerable energy that has been harnessed by writers through all of history. Nobel laureate Knut Hamsuns 1898 novella, Victoria, draws on this energy to fuel his inextinguishable prose and return to the theme of doomed love, a theme characteristic of his impressive
There are some books that have a lasting impact on ones life, books that leave an indelible mark on ones deepest emotions. For me there are a number, but Victoria by Knut Hamsun occupies a special place as the most captivating and heart-breaking love story ever written. I read it in my mid-teens, in the full flood of my most romantic period. Its a short novel; I finished it in less than two hours in a single sitting, overwhelmed by the poetic intensity of the prose, overwhelmed by the story of
A short simple and profound love story which captures the intensity, passion and hopelessness of love; especially young love. The two protagonists Johannes and Victoria fall in love in early teenage and the story develops over a period of years. They manage to hurt each other, be shy, clumsy and avoid sharing their feelings. The language of this book is poetic and lyrical. Reading this as an adult; it was moving, but I wonder how I would have felt about it as a teenager; it may have had a more
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