Summary
Knut Hamsun: The Circle Closes
The greatest Norwegian writer, Knut Hamsun, wrote at the age of 77 the last of a total of twenty novels, "The Circle Closes", with which he crowned his life's work. The hero of the novel, Abel Brodersen, is an extremely modern character who has lost his roots in wandering between America and his native Norway, towards which he is drawn by an unfulfilled love from his youth. The book describes his entire life, interwoven with the fates of a dozen other people, in a simple and effective style that anticipates Kafka, existentialists and Bukowski at the same time.
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