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On Overgrown Paths

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'Midsummer's Day 1948: Today the Supreme Court has made its judgement, and I end my writing'

On Overgrown Paths, the last work of the Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, was published in 1949. It is an epilogue in all senses, an exemplary instance of 'late work' as well as of life-writing. Composed at a critical juncture in European history and in Hamsun's life and career, it documents an irreversible fall from grace.

The book is a powerfully written, deeply engaging work of self-narrative by a g...