Knut Hamsun (1858-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. 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 "The story tells is as gripping as ever, and its descriptions of nature remain original. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.īy 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 With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Sverre Lyngstad's superb translation of Hamsun's 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. 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. This superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an informative Introduction.īook Synopsis The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche A Penguin ClassicĪ lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. PAN provides a lyrical, yet disturbing, analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche. About the Book First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's PAN recounts Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods.
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