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Title	:	Victoria
Author	:	Knut Hamsun
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2001 by Souvenir Press (first published 1898)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Romance

Victoria

Knut Hamsun

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 5210 Users | 324 Reviews

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you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.

but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose". so i shrugged and went away.

i only read this because it is used in one of the most emotionally wrenching scenes in the kjaerstad trilogy, so you would think this would also drip with melancholy goo. not so.

it's good, it is just more restrained in its writing than what i usually go for in this type of narrative. and i have read two other books by him, it's not like i was expecting heaving bosoms and passionate speeches, but i just couldn't find anything to grab onto. they all kind of act like bratty teenagers, whose emotions flail up and down and then end in eye-pokings. it would be comical if it wasn't also so sad.

but the bottom line, and this is the bottom line in many books by my beloved thomas hardy as well: why don't you just talk to each other? without lying?? it would just make everyone happier in the end.

that is my lesson to characters everywhere, and it is my advice to you on the internet. go forth.

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Original Title:	Victoria: En kjærlighedshistorie
ISBN:	0285647598 (ISBN13: 9780285647596)
Edition Language:	English

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2.5 stars. This is like an inferior version of Pan. Thankfully, it's short. And probably it's better than I give it credit for--but it's just hard not to compare it to his other masterpieces. This story of unrequited love doesn't say anything about obsession, delirium, or irrationality that Pan doesn't say much better and with much more humor. It does, however, touch on some class issues, but that in itself makes me want to yawn a great big yawn.

When he grew up he wanted to be a diver. That was a sure thing. Then he would go down into the ocean from the deck a ship and come to strange lands, to kingdoms with swaying forests, vast and mysterious, and with a coral palace on the ocean floor. And the princess waves to him from a window and says, Come in! Johannes is a bright young boy with a vivid imagination growing up in a poor household near the sea. His dreams alternate between adventure and romance, fueled by the passing ships and by

You could write off the title character as little more than a meagre strumpet,Toying around with male affections like a sambo plays the trumpet.But Hamsun, that master of the soul, turns it all the way around,So Victoria's character is revealed as something lambent and profound.Hamsun's Nietzschean contempt for the upper classes of his day, Which would later lead him to favour the meritocratic NS way,Caused him to parody decadent cucks in this early but excellent bookWritten in 1898...lest his

This has some marvelous emotions and wonderful use of technique, but I just didn't care for it as much as I did "Hunger." It just doesn't seem like the same kind of effort, the same level of Hamsun laying himself into the work. It's pretty, but it doesn't have the same raw power that "Hunger" does. Of course, maybe it's just more delicate and I'm just not appreciating the delicacies as much, but that's my reaction.

Crushing, crushing inevitability. Macabre and surgical dissection of deathless love savaged by fragile, chimeric institutions which still haunt us today, although they are metamorphosised ghosts of class and respectability. An exorcism of Knut Hamsun's own idiosyncratic insecurities (he named his own daughter after the novel; why not just slap a hag's curse on the poor thing?), a sinew snapping, unappreciated novella of lives devoted to the brutality of human emotion. I can understand, at first

Quotes BelowI have quoted the author at length (in the first comment below), partly to inform my own reading when I get the chance.CommunicationHowever, what I really hope is that it will help me grapple with the comments of some reviewers to the effect that his characters could have avoided most of their problems, if they had just communicated with each other better.Poor communication is something we stumble into when we are egotistical and energetic and bullet-proof in our youth.HurtWe don't