Olav Medal and with the Knight’s Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. Natsume Soseki 12.98 Editorial Reviews About the Author Mysteries (1894), (1898), and (1917)and was honored by the King of Norway with the St. Knut Hamsun embarked on an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body. In Mysteries Hamsun replaces the mimetic image of narrator as a coherent personality with a non-mimetic blend of narrative functions, anticipating a. It was translated into English by Gerry Bothmer and 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'. Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890. The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. Kp boken Mysteries av Knut Hamsun (ISBN 9780141186184) hos Adlibris. 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. 1971, 2nd printing 'Newly translated from the Norwegian by Gerry Bothmer' Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishers, New York hardbound in burgundy boards with gilt stamp lettering on spine (minor fading - see pic) quite good condition of unmarked pages except for previous owner's name inside cover page no dust jacket.

Mysteries by knut hamsun