/lit/ - Literature

>Norwegian Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground reminded me a lot of Hunger and Mysteries.

>”what do you mean Knut Hamsun wrote other novels aside from Hunger (1890) ?!?!”

*blocks your path*
*gets drunk, kills his dog, and builds an agricultural empire*

Hi /lit/

I'm gonna be frank: I want some book (novels, poetry collections, anything) recommendations. I recently took an interest in literature and have found that not going for the classics but whatever falls in my lap is generally favourable. It doesn't have to be anything you think I might like, just anything you'd like to suggest. I'll try anything.

Authors I've enjoyed a lot:
Knut Hamsun (especially the agrarian, anti-modern novels. I didn't really feel Hunger)
Charles Bukowski (enjoyed the reduced prose)
James Joyce (currently reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and having a blast. The stream-of-consciousness narrative technique makes it a fun read)

Poets I've enjoyed:
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac (do you sense a pattern)
Nordahl Grieg
A "labour poet" named Bjorn Aamodt

>>2961990
Yeah, I believe it's the one of the first rifts in his very shallow facade.

I myself didn't exactly find the book terribly fun, but I reckon Hamsun's ability to describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow".
Impressive sense of non-structured narrative driven by the mind of this character, and all the split-second decisions, mad ramblings, social anxiety, and fear of public embarrassment are so well visioned, and so close to home, that you can't but admire the understanding of the human mind that Hamsun has. My favorite scene is the prison-monologue, sounds fucking terrifying.

However, the subject is, and has never really been of much interest to me, so I found myself more inclined to praise "The growth of the soil".

Bitch should've known he couldn't pull of the Hamsun look.

Leser Markens Grøde og finner den ganske lærerik. En virkelig fornøyelse å lese.

Anyone reading Hamsun in English can piss off.