![]() ![]() Included among this group are a few prominent upstart writers and painters, as well as working men such as merchants, a lawyer, and a journalist. Hamsun depicts cosmoplitan urban life in early modern Norway through the lives of a clique of young city-dwelling artists and professionals. The story takes place in Kristiania (present-day Oslo). ![]() Though generally regarded as Norway’s pre-eminent modernist, Shallow Soil is a book that harkens back to a naturalistic style of storytelling that bears more resemblance to earlier writers like Emile Zola or Norway’s own Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson than to Hamsun’s more experimental works. Hamsun, a prolific writer with a long career, would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Shallow Soil, a novel by Knut Hamsun, was originally published in 1893 under the Norwegian title of Ny Jord. ![]()
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