Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) is a Norwegian writer and the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate for 1920. In the novels “Children of Time” (1913) and its sequel “The Little Town of Segelfoss” (1922), Knut Hamsun told the story of the rise and decline of two wealthy families. The relationship between the estate owner, Lieutenant Viljac Holm-sen, and his wife, Mrs. Ad elgeida—an arrangement characteristic of many Hamsun characters—is a kind of love-and-resentment, a love-hate dynamic that twists their lives and leads to a break.