Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

by Knut Hamsun, James McFarlane (Translator)

Overview

Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation.

"The work contains a harmony found only in the highest types of poetry; it is actually poetry set in prose, and boasts the best traits of each." Isaac Bashevis Singer

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374500160
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	01/01/1956
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)
Lexile:	760L (what's this?)

About the Author

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He is the author of books including Hunger and Mysteries.

Editorial Reviews

"Knut Hamsun’s greatest novels ... throttle reason. In Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894), the Norwegian writer founded the kind of Modernist novel which largely ended with Beckett – of crepuscular states, of alienation and leaping surrealism, and of savage fictionality." - London Review of Books

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