@article{Dvergsdal_2020, title={Hamsuns avvæpning: Om På gjengrodde stier (1949)}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5652}, DOI={10.7557/13.5652}, abstractNote={<p class="Sammendrag"><span lang="EN-US">The article enlightens first how a main reason why Hamsun wrote </span><span lang="EN-US">On Overgrown Paths</span><span lang="EN-US"> was that he desperately needed money. He needed income from a new book, on a large scale. Hamsun’s popularity after the war was still low – so the new book had to motivate a reader right from the start, to go on reading. </span><span lang="EN-US">On Overgrown Paths</span><span lang="EN-US"> fulfilled this aim 100%, and the article goes on to show how. Two different, intertwined writing strategies are working in the book: First, a text type dominating from the start, a chronological report style with characteristics also from diary, with disarming effect on the reader. Throughout the book a fabulating and poetic style develops, which breaks up chronology. It dominates in the last part and enables the reader to experience, revive, enjoy and be affected by typical features of the voice of the author Knut Hamsun. </span></p>}, number={47}, journal={Nordlit}, author={Dvergsdal, Alvhild}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={123–138} }