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Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
3.5
The rugged man stood there with a miracle before him; a thing created first of all in a sacred mist, showing forth now in life with a little face like an allegory.
The writing style of Hamsun’s ‘epic’ is quite different from the other two (earlier period) Hamsun novels I've read, and in some ways it reminded me of Buck's [b:The Good Earth|1078|The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)|Pearl S. Buck|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1312497600s/1078.jpg|2346070], though Hamsun is much more intrusive as a narrator. The above sentence is from early on in the novel and is easily my favorite, though it is with the allegorical aspects of this novel that I struggled. I struggled even more so with some of Hamsun's ideas, especially those embodied in the female characters.
The ending is beautifully written, if too romantic (of the land) for my tastes. Or perhaps it’s merely that, my preferences run less to this:
and much more to this:
The rugged man stood there with a miracle before him; a thing created first of all in a sacred mist, showing forth now in life with a little face like an allegory.
The writing style of Hamsun’s ‘epic’ is quite different from the other two (earlier period) Hamsun novels I've read, and in some ways it reminded me of Buck's [b:The Good Earth|1078|The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)|Pearl S. Buck|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1312497600s/1078.jpg|2346070], though Hamsun is much more intrusive as a narrator. The above sentence is from early on in the novel and is easily my favorite, though it is with the allegorical aspects of this novel that I struggled. I struggled even more so with some of Hamsun's ideas, especially those embodied in the female characters.
The ending is beautifully written, if too romantic (of the land) for my tastes. Or perhaps it’s merely that, my preferences run less to this:
and much more to this: