Download Free Audio Victoria Books

Define Out Of Books Victoria

Title	:	Victoria
Author	:	Knut Hamsun
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2001 by Souvenir Press (first published 1898)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Romance

Victoria

Knut Hamsun

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 5210 Users | 324 Reviews

Representaion Concering Books Victoria

you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.

but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose". so i shrugged and went away.

i only read this because it is used in one of the most emotionally wrenching scenes in the kjaerstad trilogy, so you would think this would also drip with melancholy goo. not so.

it's good, it is just more restrained in its writing than what i usually go for in this type of narrative. and i have read two other books by him, it's not like i was expecting heaving bosoms and passionate speeches, but i just couldn't find anything to grab onto. they all kind of act like bratty teenagers, whose emotions flail up and down and then end in eye-pokings. it would be comical if it wasn't also so sad.

but the bottom line, and this is the bottom line in many books by my beloved thomas hardy as well: why don't you just talk to each other? without lying?? it would just make everyone happier in the end.

that is my lesson to characters everywhere, and it is my advice to you on the internet. go forth.

come to my blog!

Present Books Conducive To Victoria

Original Title:	Victoria: En kjærlighedshistorie
ISBN:	0285647598 (ISBN13: 9780285647596)
Edition Language:	English

Rating Out Of Books Victoria

Ratings: 3.74 From 5210 Users | 324 Reviews

Criticism Out Of Books Victoria

Other than a vivid drowning rescue and some sadsack suggestions about true love, this is simply flat. Sucky compared to his better known novels -- a dull, poorly characterized (can't picture these characters other than Johannes and his tan wrists), muddy novella at best. One character's head is blown to bits and I didn't care since he made almost no impression. There's an immolation scene too that leads to an inferno but it happens too quickly and reads like bad Gothic lit. Can't believe he

Love became the worlds beginning and the worlds ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood. The passions and desires of young love, and the frustration of love torn apart by society, is a source of considerable energy that has been harnessed by writers through all of history. Nobel laureate Knut Hamsuns 1898 novella, Victoria, draws on this energy to fuel his inextinguishable prose and return to the theme of doomed love, a theme characteristic of his impressive

2.5 stars. This is like an inferior version of Pan. Thankfully, it's short. And probably it's better than I give it credit for--but it's just hard not to compare it to his other masterpieces. This story of unrequited love doesn't say anything about obsession, delirium, or irrationality that Pan doesn't say much better and with much more humor. It does, however, touch on some class issues, but that in itself makes me want to yawn a great big yawn.

The first time I read Victoria I was 11. Ok, I know, a little young for this type of novel.. I remember being able to appreciate the prose, the fluidity of it (at least in Norwegian), but I also remember being irritated at both Johannes and Victoria, not understanding their love or their actions. An 11-year old hasn't typically had the life experience to be able to understand or appreciate this type of work, or at least I certainly hadn't. Not having reread it since, I happened on it as I was

you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it. but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed this wooden fence all around the emotional appeal and said "you are not coming in!" and i'm like, "dude, come on - just let me care about the characters a little bit". and hamsun's all "no way, jose".

Charming bittersweet tale about star crossed lovers (I'd said unrequited before but that was the wrong word...my bad). Lovely little book.

You could write off the title character as little more than a meagre strumpet,Toying around with male affections like a sambo plays the trumpet.But Hamsun, that master of the soul, turns it all the way around,So Victoria's character is revealed as something lambent and profound.Hamsun's Nietzschean contempt for the upper classes of his day, Which would later lead him to favour the meritocratic NS way,Caused him to parody decadent cucks in this early but excellent bookWritten in 1898...lest his