Summary
Knut Hamsun: The Last Chapter
The first post-war edition of the great Norwegian writer's novel and one of his best works. Sanatorium "Torahus", a resort and rehabilitation center for people from the city, is being built in the neighborhood of the mountain estate of the cheerful and sturdy mountaineer Danijela, where people live a natural way of life. Confronting the people of nature and civilization, Hamsun follows their life destinies, emotional misunderstandings, hidden passions, smaller and larger interests in his own specific way, with his characteristic irony and humor. Although written extremely realistically, his novel grows into an extraordinary allegory, full of symbolic hints about the true face of our civilization and its so-called "progress". At the end of the novel, there is an excellent discussion about Hamsun's life and work.
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