Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness , subject, perspective and environment.
He published more than 23 novels , a collection of poetry , some short stories and plays , a travelogue , works of non-fiction and some essays.
Hamsun is considered to be "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years" ca. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun".
The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. He argued that the main object of modernist literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow".
He was not convicted, officially due to psychological problems and issues relating to old age, but was issued a heavy fine in At nine Knut was separated from his family and lived with his uncle Hans Olsen, who needed help with the post office he ran.
