Ebook {Epub PDF} The Women at the Pump by Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun’s title indicates his novel’s subject: The town pump is the center of life in a small town, because it is notoriously a gathering place for gossips. The Woman at the Pump by knut Hansun Book sounded interesting even though written in It is about a fishing community where the woman are the ones /5(7). Read “The Women at the Pump”, by Knut Hamsun online on Bookmate – In their gossiping at the pump the women express the poetry, the tawdriness and, above all, the sheer vitality of life in Hamsun's sma.

The Women at the Pump overflows with a prodigality of invention and sardonic humour typical of Hamsun's work at its best. First published in , the year Hamsun won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it has a universal quality that transcends time and place. Read "The Women at the Pump", by Knut Hamsun online on Bookmate - In their gossiping at the pump the women express the poetry, the tawdriness and, above all, the sheer vitality of life in Hamsun's sma. Knut Hamsun, Women at the Pump () "A girl in a pair of shoes." My new favorite way to describe a person without describing them at all. The way he put "she wasn't exactly bright, she was ordinary and insignificant." before "a girl in a pair of shoes" makes it sound like there's a connection.

The Women at the Pump overflows with a prodigality of invention and sardonic humour typical of Hamsun's work at its best. First published in , the year Hamsun won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it has a universal quality that transcends time and place. The year Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for his brilliant "Growth of the Soil", this novel was published. While "Growth of the Soil" was the story of the early settlers cultivating the land, "The Women at the Pump" is set in a small town and around the time it was written. Again the story spans a couple of decades, and is still totally in the grip of the master. The Woman at the Pump by knut Hansun Book sounded interesting even though written in It is about a fishing community where the woman are the ones that stay on the land while husbands go off to sea.