Books like Growth of the Soil, but better?

[Anonymous No.14272687]

Growth of the Soul disappointed me a bit. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. It is so realistic that it sometimes feels more like a historical case study than a novel at times. Someone told me that you can’t fully understand the book unless you are Norwegian. I think I get where he was coming from with that statement. However, I did like a lot of the general themes of the book regarding self sustainability, nature vs modernity, and farming.

Are there any other goods books along these lines that have similar themes? They can be fiction or nonfiction. In some ways I would prefer non fiction. One of my favorite environmental books was The One Straw Revolution for reference and if anyone wants something to read.

[Anonymous No.14272745]

>>14272687
The Good Earth

[Anonymous No.14273880]

>>14272687

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14273903]

Along the The One Straw Revolution lines, I got Bill Mollison’s Permaculture.

For fiction, would Sometimes a Great Notion be appropriate?

[Anonymous No.14273965]

>>14272687
It's a bit tangential, but The Philosopher's Plant by Michael Marder might interest you.

[Anonymous No.14274352]

>>14272687
Just started reading this, but it seems to have great potential.

[Anonymous No.14274437]

I like /lit/'s apparently newfound interest in Knut Hamsun, though I don’t know what brought it about

[Anonymous No.14274451]

>>14274437
Is it that new? I somewhat regular discussions about Hamsun on /lit/ in 2013.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14274454]

>>14274437
Uncle Ted fandom?

[Anonymous No.14274482]

>>14274437
It's because Hamsun was an open Nazi sympathizer (court only dropped his postwar treason charges because they deemed him to be a mentally-infirm old man) and wrote with environmentally-conscious bent. The influence of hardcore ecologically-minded sorts like Ted Kaczynski and to a lesser extent Linkola on the Anglophone far-right has grown exponentially in recent years (possibly bolstered by that new Unabomber documentary, although this trend has been present for a while). We see this in Brenton Tarrant's (Christchurch shooter) manifesto and in the "pine tree gang" online subculture. It has led to Hamsun and Nazi ecological ideology related to the concept of "blood and soil" being dug up and popularized among today's far right, along with other related texts.

>TL;DR the fascist and nat-soc youth have added some more green to their black and brown in recent years

[Anonymous No.14274539]

>>14274482
>he fascist and nat-soc youth have added some more green to their black and brown in recent years

There was always "green" in the nat-soc movement, at least as it evolved in Germany in the 1930s, but also going back to the 19th century with the Wandervogel movement. It isn't really an add-on.

[Anonymous No.14274562]

>>14274539
I didn't say it was an add-on. I said it was dug up. In the postwar Anglophone far right, the "green" elements that go back deep into the roots of the far right were mostly dormant for a very long time. Guys like Rockwell, Pierce, Covington, Tommasi, Mason, Tyndall never really gave a shit about the Earth.

[Anonymous No.14274577]

>>14274482
>open nazi sympathizer
Open Germany sympathizer. The trial and charges against him after the war were complete bullshit. He didnt do anything to support the nazis except for writing some articles in the papers.

Considering Hamsun's standing in the world and Norway at the time, it was better to not charge him with treason and instead claim he was mentally-infirm. Read "På gjengrodde stier" (On Overgrown Paths) and decide for yourself if he was mentally-firm or not

[Anonymous No.14274581]

>>14274562
I mean, I don't know if they gave a shit or not, but you are right that they never brought it up. The whole Earth Day and ecology movement things were mostly abandoned to the Left. Even now, climate change is seen as a leftist cause, but more and more, conservationism and "back to nature" are being incorporated into the right.

[Anonymous No.14274633]

>>14274581
I'd add that the left seems more focused on ephemeral chemicals and statistics, whereas the right responds to plastic waste, deforestation, ecology, etc.