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Translator Sverre Lyngstad Publication date 1949 Originally published 1949 Genre Diary Country Norway | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language Norwegian ISBN 1-892295-10-5 Publisher Green Integer OCLC 42690449 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Works by Knut Hamsun Growth of the Soil, Wayfarers, Pan, Hunger, Men livet lever | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Overgrown Paths is the English title of a 1949 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, and is seen as the author's attempt at proving his soundness of mind after his sanity was called into question. It was his last literary work. The book is part fiction, part diary, part an old man's apologia and part a pamphlet in opposition to the ruling given in the 1948 court trial against him, that he had "permanently impaired mental abilities".
Contents
The original Norwegian version was titled Paa gjengrodde Stier.
English editions
The first translation to English was published in 1967.
One translation was done by Sverre Lyngstad.
Other languages
The novel has been published in German, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic, Serbian (translated by Mirko Rumac; Beograd: LOM, 2011), Bosnian and French. The Bosnian translation was done by Munim Delalic, and it was published by Dobra knjiga d.o.o., Sarajevo, in 2014.
Filmatization
The writing of this book is shown, in part, in the film Hamsun (1996), directed by Jan Troell. In the film, Hamsun is portrayed by Swedish actor Max von Sydow.