![]() ![]() These insights, however, have to be separated from Hamsun’s hasty generalizations concerning the work of Bjørnson, Lie, Kielland, and Ibsen which I defend against Hamsun’s malicious argumentation. I argue that some of Hamsun’s opinions concerning the function and the mode of making literature are still up-to-date and thought-provoking. The final part of the article involves a critical assessment of Hamsun’s endeavor. In two first sections of the text I follow Hamsun’s scornful arguments against Norwegian realistic literature (as represented mainly by “the great four” writers: Bjørnson, Ibsen, Lie and Kielland) in an attempt to concisely present Hamsun’s reformatory plan according to which Norwegian literature should be freed from its entanglement in didacticism and social bias and redirected onto a path of a deeper psychology. ![]() ![]() These texts constitute Hamsun’s theoretical and literary manifesto (1891), which up to this day has remained an important introduction to his early and most acclaimed work. The article presents a critical reading of Knut Hamsun’s På turné – the collection of Hamsun’s three polemic lectures entitled: “Norsk litteratur”, “Psykologisk litteratur” and “Modelitteratur”. ![]()
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