Growth of the Soil (Plody Zemli)

Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize for his novel Fruits of the Soil. A peasant, Isaac, gradually begins to settle in a remote forested corner, developing his own life and the space around him. As the years pass, time fills them with faces and events: Inger, his wife, arrives and remains by his side, children are born and grow up, and the farm expands. Mistakes, misfortunes, bureaucratic traps, and the envy of strangers all come to Isaac's home. One thing remains constant—the daily, creative, hard work. People who 'don't want to keep up with life,' 'want to outstrip it,' spread a net of temptations, and not all heroes manage to evade them. Yet, the most important thing remains constant: 'a life lived according to justice and opportunity, a life of trust and correctness in all things.'