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Hmmm.... Interesting. Most Americans never heard of Knut Hamsun. It is true that Hamsun was very pro-Nazi. When Hamsun attacked American "boosterism." Very similar attitudes to Sinclair Lewis. Which reminds me, I will probably be assigning a Sinclair Lewis book as part of the Freeper Reading Club in the near future. Lewis's attitude against small businessmen as culturally "uncouth" was very common back then. Hamsun is just the European version of this. Most of the Europeans that had this attitude towards Americans became either Commies or Fascists (Ezra Pound was of the latter variety).

9 posted on 03/19/2003 5:32:36 PM PST by PJ-Comix (A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)

15 posted on 03/19/2003 5:48:43 PM PST by headsonpikes ("They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere!")

Hamsun is an interesting case. His first book, Hunger, remains a classic to this day and is not dated at all. On the other hand there is a nihilist element in all his work, which got worse with age.