Author Archives: Mark Deavin

Mark Deavin

Knut Hamsun & the Cause of Europe

Marianne Hamsun, "Portrait of Knut Hamsun," date unknown

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After fifty years of being confined to the Orwellian memory hole created by the Jews as part of their European “denazification” process, the work of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun — who died in 1952 — is reemerging to take its place among the greatest European literature of the twentieth century. All of his major novels have undergone English-language reprints during the last two years, and even in his native Norway, where his post-1945 ostracism has been most severe, he is finally receiving a long-overdue recognition. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, agrarianism, Knut Hamsun, literature, Mark Deavin, National Socialism | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil

Mark Deavin

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In 1916 Hamsun began work on what became his greatest and most idealistic novel, Growth of the Soil, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. It painted Hamsun’s ideal of a solid, farm-based culture, where human values, instead of being fixed upon transitory artificialities which modern society had deemed fashionable, would be based upon the fixed wheel of the seasons in the safekeeping of an inviolable eternity where man and Nature existed in harmony: Read more …

Published: October 6, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged agrarianism, articles, book reviews, ecology, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun, literature, Mark Deavin, reprints | Comments closed

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Henry Williamson: Nature’s Visionary

Mark Deavin

3,420 words

The fact that the name of Henry Williamson is today so little known across the White world is a sad reflection of the extent to which Western man has allowed himself to be deprived of his culture and identity over the last 50 years. Until the Second World War Williamson was generally regarded as one of the great English Nature writers, possessing a unique ability to capture the essential essence and meaning of the natural world in all its variety and forms.