A LECTURE TOUR: Knut Hamsun

“I’m going to talk about literature. Serious literature.”

Decrepit carpet-bag, or somebody else travelled to Drammen to give lecture on literature?
Smug, 500 lecture invitation cards each with a typo….
versus posters for someone else’s talk on apes and wild beasts, and a badger masquerading as a hyena. With magic tricks. 

Humiliated, penny-pinching negotiation, moving from hotel to B and B.
Barometer plummets. Brandy helps. Literature wins over charlatanism. Yet, he remains strangely and ineluctably unconsoled.

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This disarming story seems now to have been, via someone else’s glimpse of truth, the core inspiration for my seriously favourite literature that I once reviewed here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/the-unconsoled-kazuo-ishiguro/

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Full context of above review: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/that-glimpse-of-truth/