Growth of the Soil - Softcover

Hamsun, Knut

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420930710 ISBN 13: 9781420930719

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2008

Synopsis

"It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands. It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant note is one of patient strength and simplicity; the mainstay of its working is the tacit, stern, yet loving alliance between Nature and the Man who faces her himself, trusting to himself and her for the physical means of life, and the spiritual contentment with life which she must grant if he be worthy. Modern man faces Nature only by proxy, or as proxy, through others or for others, and the intimacy is lost. In the wilds the contact is direct and immediate; it is the foothold upon earth, the touch of the soil itself, that gives strength. The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity. The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god. A more objective work of fiction it would be hard to find--certainly in what used to be called 'the neurasthenic North.'"--From the footnote to "Growth of the Soil" by W. W. Worster.

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Review:

"Growth of the Soil" impresses me as among the very greatest novels I have ever read. It is wholly beautiful; it is saturated with wisdom and humor and tenderness.
H. G. Wells
The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1420930710
• ISBN 13: 9781420930719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224