Between "Hunger" and "Growth of the Soil" lies the time generally allotted to a generation, but at first glance the two books seem much farther apart.
What, above all, he hates and combats is the artificial uselessness of existence which to him has become embodied in the life of the city as opposed to that of the country..
If he has changed, it is only in the intensity of his feeling and the mode of his attack.
His objective is the same.
The truth, however, is that Hamsun stands today where he has always stood.
The issuance of two such books from the same pen suggests to the superficial view a complete reversal of position.
The other celebrates a root-fast existence bounded in every direction by monotonous chores.
One expresses the passionate revolt of a homeless wanderer against the conventional routine of modern life.
Between "Hunger" and "Growth of the Soil" lies the time generally allotted to a generation, but at first glance the two books seem much farther apart
