Victoria

by Knut Hamsun, Kirsti Baggethun (Translator), Asunción Lorenzo (Translator)

Overview

Generally recognized as one of Hamsun's greatest works, Victoria was originally published in 1898. The novel, a seemingly simple love idyll, is imbued with a passionate lyricism and that brooding melancholy that appears in so much of Hamsun's writing. The star-crossed lovers, Johannes, the miller's son, and Victoria, the daughter of the lord of the manor, prove, in their love, perversely cruel to each other and end up in the inevitable tragedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788416112135
Publisher:	Nórdica Libros
Publication date:	04/07/2014
Series:	Letras Nórdicas
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Knut Hamsun (1858–1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff’s assistant, laborer, store clerk, farmhand, and streetcar conductor in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. His first novel, Hunger (1890), was an immediate critical success; he went on to write the novels Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917), the last of which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Sverre Lyngstad (1922–2011; translator, introducer, notes) was a scholar and translator of Norwegian literature and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He translated five of Knut Hamsun’s works for Penguin Classics—Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917)—and was honored by the King of Norway with the St. Olav Medal and with the Knight’s Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.

Editorial Reviews

Reaching back to 1898, this title is Norway's answer to the standard story of a young couple whose love is threatened by class distinctions. Hamsun won the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature, so he must know something. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review

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