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Knut Hamsun. Growth of the Soil.(Book review)
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Scandinavian Studies
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December 22, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Knut Hamsun. Growth of the Soil. Trans. Sverre Lyngstad. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Pp. xx + 328. Paperback. $13.00.
A new translation of Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, Markens grode, has long been overdue. The same year the novel appeared (1917), the Englishman W. W. Worster translated it into English. This novel is perhaps the most difficult of Hamsun's works to translate, and maybe that is the reason we have had to wait so many years for a new translation. The epic nature of the work, with its Biblical overtones of style, earthy atmosphere, and dialectical expressions (like dokker), are difficult to translate into another language. Faithful to the ...
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