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Ingar Sletten Kolloen won the Norwegian Readers’ Award 2004 for this biography. He has worked as publisher, journalist, commentator, and editor for a number of newspapers. He lives in Norway.
List of Illustrations | p. viii |
Preface | p. x |
Before the Iron Nights | p. 3 |
The Expulsion | p. 4 |
The Chosen One | p. 10 |
A Shock | p. 14 |
Off to America | p. 20 |
Writing for Dear Life | p. 24 |
An Undiscovered Genius | p. 27 |
A Sense of Clarity | p. 31 |
The Fractional Workings of the Soul | p. 34 |
The Moment of Triumph | p. 38 |
Posturing | p. 41 |
Divine Madness | p. 46 |
Seducer and Poet | p. 50 |
Death to the Prophets! | p. 57 |
The Sphinx with No Riddle | p. 62 |
A Charlatan Takes Flight | p. 65 |
A Literary Thief | p. 68 |
A Parisian Tour | p. 72 |
Longing for Edvarda | p. 77 |
I Beat Ibsen to the Ground | p. 80 |
Lies | p. 85 |
Fever-Free | p. 89 |
Journeying East | p. 93 |
Prodigal Son - Failed Husband | p. 97 |
I Shall Spit in God's Eye | p. 99 |
The Break-Up of Two Unions | p. 104 |
A Happy House in the Forest? | p. 110 |
Away from the City | p. 116 |
My Only Love on This Earth | p. 121 |
There Is No Such Things as Harmony | p. 124 |
Let the Dirt of City Life Go | p. 129 |
Bjornson's Throne Is Vacant | p. 132 |
Putting Down Roots | p. 135 |
Just Hysteria and Nerves | p. 140 |
The View from the Hotel | p. 144 |
War and Murder | p. 149 |
Myriads of Characters | p. 151 |
Full Control - But at What Price? | p. 154 |
I Must Be Rid of This Farm | p. 156 |
I Am Not Happy in the City | p. 158 |
A Paradise on Earth | p. 162 |
Master of Norholm | p. 165 |
How We All Struggle | p. 167 |
Hell Is the City | p. 172 |
Friends and Enemies in Stockholm | p. 176 |
To Stockholm with a New Dress | p. 178 |
Come, Death! | p. 182 |
Success and Anxiety | p. 184 |
The Balancing Artist | p. 187 |
The Wizard's Cold Artistry | p. 190 |
A Giant Buys Himself | p. 192 |
Eternal Conflict | p. 196 |
A New Spring? | p. 201 |
I Shall Write Like a Young Man Again | p. 206 |
Old Man's Prattle? | p. 211 |
A Literary Emperor | p. 214 |
Greatness, What Is That? | p. 218 |
A Red Streak | p. 223 |
A Convalescent in Search of Reconciliation | p. 225 |
A Romantic | p. 228 |
'Wilkommen, Knut Hamsun!' | p. 229 |
When the Author Opens Up | p. 234 |
The World Has Come to the End of the Road | p. 236 |
Hidden Romance | p. 238 |
Prostrate before the Incarnation of Power | p. 240 |
Father and Son in Goebbels's Clasp | p. 243 |
At the Gates of the Kingdom | p. 246 |
I Feel Sympathy for the Jew Too | p. 251 |
I Feel I Am Decaying | p. 255 |
To Win or Perish | p. 258 |
I Bring Greetings from Hamsun | p. 259 |
Nothing but Reality | p. 265 |
Yes or No, Herr Reichskommissar! | p. 269 |
Even If Hitler Himself Invited Me | p. 272 |
The Web of Destiny | p. 276 |
He Shall Succeed | p. 279 |
You Understand Nothing! | p. 282 |
A Defeated Devotee | p. 286 |
We Will See Nothing But Destruction Now! | p. 289 |
The End of the Future | p. 292 |
I Plead Not Guilty | p. 295 |
The Stakes in the 'Hamsun Case' | p. 298 |
The Unshakeable Writer | p. 301 |
The Clinic | p. 303 |
Battles and Treacheries | p. 306 |
A Necessary Diagnosis | p. 309 |
A Frozen Tap | p. 311 |
We Have Sinned So Greatly | p. 314 |
My Conscience Is Clear! | p. 318 |
A Glimmer of Hope? | p. 321 |
Strange to Be a Dead Man before I Am Dead | p. 327 |
The Lion's Claw | p. 331 |
A Suicide Mission | p. 333 |
... But No Martyr | p. 336 |
She Came with the Spring | p. 338 |
Notes | p. 343 |
Bibliography | p. 361 |
Index | p. 365 |
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