The Problem with Biblical Motifs in Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Conner, Tom
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Hamsun og bibelske motiver; Bakhtin; Samer; Hamsun and biblical motifs; Samí; Andreas; Cavalier; Norway; Storfjell; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4411; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4411

Religion does not play a major role in Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun’s work. The one brilliant exception to this detached and seemingly cavalier attitude toward religion or, should I say, Christianity, is Hamsun’s masterpiece, Growth of the Soil (1917), which won him the Nobel Prize in litera...