Kirjanik ja diktaator

One of Norway's most prominent writers, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), grew up in poor conditions in central and northern Norway. Defying hunger and cold, he fulfilled his dream, writing his own Parnassus of world literature. He influenced several generations of European and American writers. He was fascinated by the idea of ​​writing in a way that no one had done before, and he became a wordsmith who created a new modern novel - and a leader who betrayed his people. Hamsun's life contained everything a novelist could dream of: a tense marital drama, a political drama of great proportions, the tragic end of a literary genius in his homeland. Step by step, the truth about Hamsun's path to Nazism is revealed in the writer's biography. Norway's most respected, most widely read writer becomes a hated and rejected intellectual greatness in his native land.