Knut Hamsun. "Sinners and Righteous"

The book presents the fictional biography of the Great Norwegian writer and the poet Knuta Gamsun. A unique Gamsunovsky style with its fragmentary, underlined subjectivism, a violation of the sequence of presentation and subtle lyrism laid the beginning of many modern literary flows. The fate of the writer who lived a huge - in 92 years - life, abounded by difficulties and deprivation. And at the very end of the path, having achieved unconditional success, becoming a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gamsun lost everything. The reason was the tragic error of the writer, during the war years of the Nazis who took the direction. For this mistake, he paid freedom and that the worst, love of compatriots. Heavy and clearly undeserved finals. But today, more than half a century after the death of Gamsun, he again in a number of Norway"s national heroes and among the recognized classics of world literature ...
Biographical stories about Gamsun are illustrated by rare photographs made in different periods of his life