The fruits of the earth. Gamsun K.

The desire to break with civilization leads the dreamer of Isaac to the forest wilderness, where he tries to find the meaning of life in peaceful peasant work and a simple family happiness with a village girl Inger...

So one of the most powerful and deeper realistic works begins The twentieth century, a novel, brought the Nobel Prize in literature for 1920 and sounded like a hymn to the earth, work and people working on it.

Hamsun does not idealize his characters, he admires their merits and disadvantages, their By force and weakness, with rapture speaks of their aspirations and hopes, small victories and big defeats, urging society in the midst of the First World War to turn to peace and creative work.