![]() He was an unknown quantity in the society and literature of his country. There was something mysterious, challenging-something alike magnetic and repellent, in the man's personality, as in his work something that invoked opposition. ![]() It met with much adverse criticism indeed, it demanded some courage in those days to declare oneself an admirer of "that dreadful Hamsun!" It made a great sensation was as the flash of some strange meteor, holding perhaps a menace to social life, across the firmament. It was followed shortly by his first novel "Sult" ("Hunger"). ![]() ![]() The intense individuality of its (it must be admitted often wrong-headed) point of view aroused interest and curiosity as to its author. Ten years ago a little book on "Intellectual Life in the America of To-day" appeared in Norway. ![]()
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