Serpent's Tail Classics edition of a wild masterpiece by a Nobel prize winner championed by influential writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Doris Lessing
Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun published a stunning series of novels in the 1890s - Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.
'Knut Hamsun's writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he
could write about anything and make it alive.' - Karl Ove
Knausgaard
'the inventor of a certain kind of modern fictionality. Hamsun's
development of the stream of consciousness becomes particularly
beautiful, and extremely comic...Mysteries is as great as
Hunger.' - James Wood
'Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, the
completest omniscience about human nature.' - Rebecca West
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