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. The 1978 film Mysteries was based on the novel. Knut Hamsun’s greatest novels from which this is a typical scene throttle reason. The novel inspired Paul Juon to write his tone-poem for cello and orchestra, 'Mysteries' op.59, written in 1914 and published in 1928. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange youg man who. Penguin published a third translation into English by Sverre Lyngstad in 2001. Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. Another translation by Gerry Bothmer was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, 'The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun.' Mysteries is said to have 'the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist'. Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun (18591952) worked as a laborer in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. In 1922, Knopf published the first English translation, a bowdlerized translation by Arthur G. The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892.

The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeois inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations. Mysteries ( Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Mysteries: A Novel by Knut Hamsun, Gerry Bothmer (Translator), Sven Birkerts (Introduction), Isaac Bashevis Singer (Afterword) 4.2 Paperback (First Edition) 20.00 Paperback 20.00 eBook 9.

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