Knut Hamsun. Visit to Hitler

Knut Gamsun (1859-1952) the great Norwegian writer, the Nobel laureate, was and remains one of the most contradictory figures in the literature of the 20th century. The singer of love and nature, human passions, who created the "Gospel of the Starty," Fruits of the Earth "(1917), Gamsun sincerely shared Nazi views and admired Mussolini, Quisling and Hitler. Based on numerous sources, using unknown archival materials (including Joseph Goebbels), the author of this study by Tour Rem (b. 1967), professor at the University of Oslo, literary critic and journalist, is trying to answer the question of how creative genius with ministry may be combined The murdererian regime.
The culmination of the book is a story about the meeting of the great writer with the dictator in the Berghof residence held on June 26, 1943.
In 2015, the book "Knut Hamsun. A visit to Hitler "was awarded the annual Award of the Norwegian Critics Association as the best in the documentary prose genre. The book was translated into Danish, Swedish and German