I. Lukyanova - Hamsun: an experience of naive reading

I first heard of Hamsun at my 15, from a rather unexpected source – a Chekh book for teenage girls written by Alena Santarova and named “Katya, Katenka, Katrine”. The main character, a teenage girl, was reading the diary of her grandmother, a volunteer hospital nurse during the first world war, and the young nurse was adimiring Hamsun in general, and Leutenant Glan, and the cruel and splendid Edwarda, of course

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