Sven Birkerts on Hamsun
Sven Birkerts writes about Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil and Hunger in the new Bookforum: A young man’s book, an old man’s book; the former an almost unremitting hallucination, the latter like something carved with patience into an obdurate oak. Hunger unfolds its unbroken inwardness in urban Christiana (now ...
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