On Overgrown Paths (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Knut Pedersen
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1945-1948
- Setting: Norway
- Principal Characters: Knut Hamsun
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Politics, Alienation, Punishment, Nazism or Nazis, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums, Isolation, Norway or Norwegians
Form and Content
At the end of World War II, Knut Hamsun, then eighty-six years old, presented a sensitive problem for the Norwegian government. During the war, Hamsun had supported the Nazis. He had believed that Adolf Hitler and the Germans, as neighbors and members of Germanic peoples, would best protect Norway’s integrity and neutrality. A determined isolationist, Hamsun did not trust—indeed, had never liked—the British, and he had regarded an English incursion in support of the Norwegian underground as an example of British imperialism. Nevertheless, he had...
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