摘要：In her autobiography The Rainbow Marie Hamsun gave her husband Knut a mind, a body and a family. She brought the public an “inside view” and was rewarded with public reverence, in spite of her background as a non-repenting Nazi. Book reviews from October 1953 show how the (overwhelmingly) male reviewers embraced the book as an opportunity to "take back Hamsun", despite his Nazi affiliations. They were to a lesser extent interested in the book as Marie Hamsun's own literary project. This is echoed in the research on Hamsun where the book is frequently cited as a source, but only to a small extent referred to as literature. This article examines The Rainbow as an act of communication in which the author's intention and readers' acknowledgments are seen as relational.
关键词：Knut og Marie Hamsun;Selvbiografi;kildebruk;kommunikasjonshandling;relasjonelt perspektiv
