{"product_id":"2940016291529","title":"Hunger","description":"INTRODUCTION BY EDWIN BJORKMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly the\u003cbr\u003eforemost creative writer of the Scandinavian countries. Those\u003cbr\u003eapproaching most nearly to his position are probably Selma Lagerlöf in\u003cbr\u003eSweden and Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark. Both these, however, seem to\u003cbr\u003ehave less than he of that width of outlook, validity of interpretation\u003cbr\u003eand authority of tone that made the greater masters what they were.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis reputation is not confined to his own country or the two\u003cbr\u003eScandinavian sister nations. It spread long ago over the rest of Europe,\u003cbr\u003etaking deepest roots in Russia, where several editions of his collected\u003cbr\u003eworks have already appeared, and where he is spoken of as the equal of\u003cbr\u003eTolstoy and Dostoyevski. The enthusiasm of this approval is a\u003cbr\u003echaracteristic symptom that throws interesting light on Russia as well\u003cbr\u003eas on Hamsun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHearing of it, one might expect him to prove a man of the masses, full\u003cbr\u003eof keen social consciousness. Instead, he must be classed as an\u003cbr\u003eindividualistic romanticist and a highly subjective aristocrat, whose\u003cbr\u003eforemost passion in life is violent, defiant deviation from everything\u003cbr\u003eaverage and ordinary. He fears and flouts the dominance of the many, and\u003cbr\u003ehis heroes, who are nothing but slightly varied images of himself, are\u003cbr\u003einvariably marked by an originality of speech and action that brings\u003cbr\u003ethem close to, if not across, the borderline of the eccentric.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071265784048,"sku":"2940016291529","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016291529_p0.jpg?v=1763632371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016291529","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}