[Assam] More on Maati aru Manuh

[Rajen & Ajanta Barua]

Chandan:
Thank you so much. I read Knut Hamsun's 'Pan' as well as have translated his 
short story, 'Pale Anna' to Assamese. However I have not read this classic 
'Growth of the Soil' which I will now. Reading the plot now it makes sense. 
This also means that Pearls Buck's novel "Good Earth" was based on similar 
plot in China. Interesting.
and thanks again.
Rajen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chan Mahanta" <cmahanta at charter.net>
To: <assam at assamnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject: [Assam] More on Maati aru Manuh


> See note from my brother mm below.
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> I looked up Knut Hamsun. Remember that name well. Read part of his
> novel Pan, again while in high school. It was in our home 'almirah',
> dog eared and worm holed. Must have been obtained by one of my
> brothers.
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> Maati aru Manuh  WAS a translation of Knut Hamsun's  Nobel Prize
> winning epic  Growth of the Soil.
> See below and
> http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780143105107
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> That Isak was the lead character as I remember well, is the clear
> proof, as is the story line.
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> So the author, most likely was Dinanath Sarma.
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> BTW it was a riveting book.
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> Growth of the Soil
> Synopsis
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> The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize
> in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's
> original publication ninety years ago
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> When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was
> immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it
> remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who
> leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the
> untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the
> elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the
> acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of
> preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning
> achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
> Annotation
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> Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. The story of an
> elemental existence in rural Norway.
> More Reviews and Recommendations
> Biography
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> Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
> Sverre Lyngstad has translated Hamsun's other novels for Penguin
> Classics and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and
> comparative literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
> Brad Leithauser is a MacArthur Prize-winning novelist, poet, and
> critic who writes frequently about Nordic literature and teaches at
> Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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>>I asked Bunu--Blank!
>>Asked Mainu Baideo .She asked Hiren and in the morning thought 'The
>>book was published by GOA's Prokaxon Parixod'
>>Today I had no time to ask anybody at Pr Pa.
>>2Hours back she had something: Dinanath Sarma wrote this -being
>>Inspired by  a book  on Love of the Land and struggle for it--- by
>>Knut Hampsen? She was almost sure that the author was NOT Jogesh Das.
>>She wanted you to recall ifyou remember a Chinese sounding Character
>>Lin Yang in the book. If there was no China character --she is sure
>>--it was not a translation of Pearl S Buck's The Good Earth.
>>She would also like your description of the theme in this book you
>>read in your Teens
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>>>  Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:23 -0600
>>>  To: assam at assamnet.org
>>>  From: cmahanta at charter.net
>>>  Subject: Re: [Assam] Jayanta writes
>>>
>>>  That is quite interesting.
>>>
>>  > I can't wait to find out the REAL truth now :-).
>>>
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