>>2571667>>2571690It's based on a poem written by this amazing writer. Also, fun read:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/10/knut.hamsun.naziThe Nazi novelist you should read: Knut Hamsun
Isaac Bashevis Singer famously called Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun the father of modern literature. I'd take this further and say that he's the father of postmodern literature as well. With 1890's Hunger, Hamsun unleashed the first in a series of novels that anticipated everything from the terrifying absurdities of Kafka to the desiccated ennui of the existentialists and even Charles Bukowski's autobiographical explorations.
