Promotional Information

A welcome contribution to fascist studies that uses sophisticated theory to illuminate the profound affinity between developments in Norwegian modernism and currents within Quisling's movement that have so far baffled or been ignored by mainstream historians. Once more a peripheral fascism seems central to our understanding. -- Roger Griffin, author of Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler Important for those interested in understanding the intersection of modernism as a literary-cultural movement and fascist movements of all sorts. -- Monika Zagar, author of Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Norwegian Modernism and Fascist Utopianism

2. Blind Forces of Life: Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries

3. Wild Spring: Asmund Sveen’s Homoerotic Vitalism and Nazi Collaboration

4. Modernist Ragnarok: Rolf Jacobsen’s Poetic and Political Anti- Nihilism

5. Unconscious Nazism: Sigurd Hoel’s Psychoanalytic Antifascism

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Dean Krouk is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

"[This book] presents a brave, nuanced, and authoritative analysis of the relationship between fascism and modernist literature in Norway."
*Scandinavian Studies*