Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the great Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate, was and remains one of the most controversial figures in the literature of the twentieth century. The singer of love and nature, human passions, who created the "Gospel of the Farmer," "Fruits of the Earth" (1917), Gamsun sincerely shared Nazi views and admired Mussolini, Quisling and Hitler. Relying on numerous sources, using unknown archival materials (including Joseph Goebbels), the author of this study, Toure Rem (b. 1967), a professor at the University of Oslo, a literary critic and journalist, is trying to answer the question of how creative genius can be combined with serving a misanthropic regime.