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Informationen zum Autor Born in 1859! Knut Hamsun's early works were forceful and polemic before he became more compassionate in his later work! drawing inspiration from the country people of his native Norway. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil. He has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Klappentext With a central character as iconoclastic as Hunger and an evocation of the restrictions of small town life as acute as Mysteries this is one of Hamsun's greatest novels. Vorwort THE FIRST UK EDITION OF HAMSUN'S LAST GREAT NOVEL;A NEW TRANSLATION BY ROBERT FERGUSON, HAMSUN'S BIOGRAPHER Zusammenfassung The Ring is Closed combines a central character as iconoclastic as that of Hunger with an evocation of the limitations of small-town life to equal Mysteries. Abel is the only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper, after falling in love he leaves his life in a village in southern Norway and travels around the United States. He returns home, haunted by secret crimes, and now his only ambition is to live, on the barest of necessities, without desire or ambition. Abel allows all opportunities for another life - an inheritance, employment, relationships - to slip away while Hamsun questions what is the true meaning of work and life.
