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'.

The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. On 4 August 2009, the Knut Hamsun Centre was opened in Hamarøy. Since 1916, several of Hamsun's works have been adapted into motion pictures. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun'. Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun 'the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect-his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism.

He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway. Hamsun is considered to be 'one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years' ( ca. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

მისტერიები by Knut Hamsun