Markens Grøde

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Markens Grøde is a classic Norwegian novel by Knut Hamsun that portrays the struggles and rewards of pioneering rural life and the bond between humans and the land.

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instanceOf novel
author Knut Hamsun NERFINISHED
awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (to its author) NERFINISHED
containsCharacterType pioneer farmer
rural community
contributedTo Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 for Knut Hamsun NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Norway
EnglishTitle Growth of the Soil NERFINISHED
explores human relationship with nature
social change in Norway
tension between rural and urban values
filmAdaptationDirector Gunnar Sommerfeldt NERFINISHED
filmAdaptationYear 1921
focusesOn homesteading
self-sufficiency
subsistence farming
genre psychological fiction
realist novel
rural novel
hasAdaptation film adaptation
hasForm prose
hasMotive critique of modernization
idealization of peasant life
hasPart two volumes
hasTranslation Growth of the Soil NERFINISHED
influenced 20th-century Scandinavian literature
Norwegian rural literature
literaryMovement modernism (early phase)
neo-romanticism
literaryPeriod early 20th-century literature
mainCharacter Inger Sellanraa NERFINISHED
Isak Sellanraa NERFINISHED
mainTheme back-to-the-land movement
bond between humans and the land
pioneering rural life
relationship between nature and civilization
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Norwegian
publicationYear 1917
publisher Gyldendal NERFINISHED
recognizedAs canonical work in Scandinavian literature
classic of Norwegian literature
setInPeriod late 19th century
setting Norwegian wilderness
rural Norway

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Growth of the Soil titleInNorwegian Markens Grøde