Benoni
By Knut Hamsun
1908
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Considered one of Hamsun's finest novels, Benoni is the first of two books in a series, Rosa is the second. Benoni is about spirited Benoni Hartvigsen, who at the beginning of the novel is a poor postman, fishing and småkarsmann with little reputation, but as a day receives a large sum of money. During the book develops Benoni to become one of the wealthiest men on Sirilund, which is the village where the bulk of the novel takes place.
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Author
Knut Hamsun
Author · 34 books
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, pen name of Knut Pedersen, include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920. He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.
