Knut Hamsun
Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.74 | 5210 Users | 324 Reviews
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| Title | : | Victoria |
| Author | : | Knut Hamsun |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2001 by Souvenir Press (first published 1898) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Romance |
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you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose". so i shrugged and went away.
i only read this because it is used in one of the most emotionally wrenching scenes in the kjaerstad trilogy, so you would think this would also drip with melancholy goo. not so.
it's good, it is just more restrained in its writing than what i usually go for in this type of narrative. and i have read two other books by him, it's not like i was expecting heaving bosoms and passionate speeches, but i just couldn't find anything to grab onto. they all kind of act like bratty teenagers, whose emotions flail up and down and then end in eye-pokings. it would be comical if it wasn't also so sad.
but the bottom line, and this is the bottom line in many books by my beloved thomas hardy as well: why don't you just talk to each other? without lying?? it would just make everyone happier in the end.
that is my lesson to characters everywhere, and it is my advice to you on the internet. go forth.
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| Original Title: | Victoria: En kjærlighedshistorie |
| ISBN: | 0285647598 (ISBN13: 9780285647596) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 5210 Users | 324 ReviewsArticle Based On Books Victoria
you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it. but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose".2.5 stars. This is like an inferior version of Pan. Thankfully, it's short. And probably it's better than I give it credit for--but it's just hard not to compare it to his other masterpieces. This story of unrequited love doesn't say anything about obsession, delirium, or irrationality that Pan doesn't say much better and with much more humor. It does, however, touch on some class issues, but that in itself makes me want to yawn a great big yawn.
2.5 stars. This is like an inferior version of Pan. Thankfully, it's short. And probably it's better than I give it credit for--but it's just hard not to compare it to his other masterpieces. This story of unrequited love doesn't say anything about obsession, delirium, or irrationality that Pan doesn't say much better and with much more humor. It does, however, touch on some class issues, but that in itself makes me want to yawn a great big yawn.
The preface duly convinced me that this book is cleverly written and meaningful, but I just didn't really connect with the storyline of Johannes and Victoria. I liked the beginning more, with the descriptions and before their relationship seemed pointless.
When he grew up he wanted to be a diver. That was a sure thing. Then he would go down into the ocean from the deck a ship and come to strange lands, to kingdoms with swaying forests, vast and mysterious, and with a coral palace on the ocean floor. And the princess waves to him from a window and says, Come in! Johannes is a bright young boy with a vivid imagination growing up in a poor household near the sea. His dreams alternate between adventure and romance, fueled by the passing ships and by
I read this novel in the Eighties. Victoria is one of the most beautiful short novels in Literature.Though titled Victoria, the protagonist is Johannes, the miller's son. He is a boy who wants to work in a match factory because, he could get sulphur on his hands so that nobody would dare to shake hands with him. Later, as a man, he spends his nights writing epic poetry, capping a productive session with loud singing that wakes his neighbours. Johannes is proud to know the stones and the streams;
I promise Ill eventually read one of his good ones.
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