Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Hamsun, Knut; Lyngstad, Sverre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180676 ISBN 13: 9780141180670

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the strange girl Edvarda comes into his life. In his 1894 breakthrough novel, Pan, Knut Hamsun provides a lyrical, yet disturbing analysis of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Sverre Lyngstad's superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes.

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Product Description:

Pan: from the Papers of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's PAN recounts Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. PAN provides a lyrical, yet disturbing, analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche. This superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an informative Introduction. Full description

Review:

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"Knut Hamsun's writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive." --Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review

"The story [Pan] tells is as gripping as ever, and its descriptions of nature remain original. 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0141180676
• ISBN 13: 9780141180670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176