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Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pederson in Lom Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

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Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akos Doma, alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Emanuele Severino, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literature, Martin Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | Comments closed

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Knut Hamsun

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Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akos Doma, alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | Comments closed

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Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence

Kerry Bolton

Kerry Bolton
Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012
210 pages

hardcover: $35

paperback: $20

Knut Hamsun

Alain de Benoist

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English version here

Knut Hamsun é um mistério. Enquanto quase todos os seus trabalhos foram traduzidos para o Francês; enquanto houve algumas adaptações para o cinema e televisão; enquanto – diferentemente de tantos outros –, seus livros não são “nem antiquados, nem obsoletos” (Hubert Nyssen), ele ainda é ignorado pelo público francês. Read more …

Published: August 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, in Portuguese, in translation, literature, North American New Right | Comments closed

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Remembering Knut Hamsun:
August 4, 1859–February 19, 1952

Greg Johnson

Knut Hamsun, circa 1890

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Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pederson in Lom Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than 20 novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the 20th century’s most influential writers. His rejection of both Romanticism and naturalism, his emphasis on outsiders and rebels, and his exploration of inner and sometimes extreme states of consciousness, made him a pioneer of literary modernism. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun

Alain de Benoist

1,000 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Portuguese translation here

Knut Hamsun is a mystery. While almost all his works have been translated into French, while there have been quite a few movie and television adaptations, while—unlike so many others—his books are “neither out-of-date nor obsolete” (Hubert Nyssen), he is still ignored by the French public. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, literature, North American New Right, translations | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun

Kerry Bolton

Knut Hamsun, 1859–1952

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Editor’s Note:

This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Knut Hamsun is chapter 6 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

Knut Hamsun, 1859–1952, has had a decisive impact on the course of twentieth century literature, both in Europe and America, yet was for decades little discussed let alone honored even in his native Norway. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, book excerpts, Kerry Bolton, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun & the Cause of Europe

Mark Deavin

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 | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, agrarianism, literature, Mark Deavin, National Socialism | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun

Kerry Bolton

2,161 words

Editor’s Note:

The following sketch of Knut Hamsun’s life and work should be supplemented by Mark Deavin’s discussion here of Hamsun’s greatest book, Growth of The Soil, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature. See also Robert Ferguson’s biography Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun, 1859–1952.

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 | Also tagged agrarianism, articles, book reviews, ecology, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, literature, Mark Deavin, reprints | Comments closed

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Knut Hamsun: Saved by Stalin?

Anonymous

Knut Hamsun, 1859–1952

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following article is from Euro-Synergies, July 12, 2009. It is my translation of Robert Steuckers’ translation of a June 24, 2009 item from the Flemish ’t Pallierterke website. I have altered the title and section headings.