Victoria (novel)

Victoria
Author	Knut Hamsun
Language	Norwegian
Genre	Fiction
Published	1898
Publication place	Norway

Victoria (Norwegian: Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie, 1898) is a novel by Knut Hamsun.^[1]

Overview

A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.

A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as Blood and Blossoms.^[2]

Hamsun later named his daughter "Victoria", after the novel.

Adaptations

Victoria or Viktoriya, a 1917 Russian silent film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Victoria, a 1935 German film directed by Carl Hoffmann
Viktoria, a 1957 West German TV movie directed by Frank Lothar, starring Elisabeth Müller
Victoria, a 1979 Swedish-German co-production directed by Bo Widerberg
Victoria [lv] or Viktoriya, a 1988 Soviet film directed by Olgerts Dunkers
Victoria, a 2013 Norwegian film directed by Torun Lian

References

^ Gibbs, Walter (February 27, 2009). "Norwegian Nobel Laureate, Once Shunned, Is Now Celebrated". The New York Times.
^ Enright, DJ (February 24, 1972), "Blood and Blossoms", The New York Review of Books.

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[NYT-1] Gibbs, Walter (February 27, 2009). "Norwegian Nobel Laureate, Once Shunned, Is Now Celebrated". The New York Times.

[nybr-2] Enright, DJ (February 24, 1972), "Blood and Blossoms", The New York Review of Books.

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