Knut Hamsun
1) Pan
Author
Publisher
The Floating Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man, who lives alone in a hut in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. Glahn's life changes when he meets Edvarda, a merchant's daughter from a nearby town, with whom he quickly falls in love. While they feel strongly for each other, they do not truly understand the other's perspective and tragedy soon befalls the lovers. Edvarda is not entirely faithful to Glahn, and he is profoundly affected...
2) Hunger
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on "an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body." Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic...
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede ) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun's career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture.
5) The wanderer
Author
Series
Noonday ; 530
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Description
"The only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper and an alcoholic mother, Abel grows up in a remote Norwegian village then travels around the United States. Upon returning from America as a young man, Abel falls in love with his longtime acquaintance Olga, the pharmacist's daughter. Haunted by the secrets of his travels, however, Abel determines to live on the barest of necessities and pursue a life without desire or ambition."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
The Last Chapter is set in the Torahus sanatorium, where the sufferings of most of the patients are related to civilisation. The novel has a group of central characters, but no distinct main character. Among the characters is "The Suicide", who entered the sanatorium following the discovery of his wife's infidelity and threatens constantly to take his own life. Another guest is the lovely Julie d'Espard. She enters into a relationship with the bogus...
10) The last joy
Author
Series
Green Integer ; 90
Publisher
Green Integer
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
11) Wayfarers
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
"In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self-determined and eager to escape his poor village of Polden. He becomes a close friend of August, a man-orphan, rootless, who sings fantastic tales of a wondrous world. In their years of seafaring, peddling, and raucous-raising--sometimes together, sometimes separated--Edevart grows in understanding, becoming a cunning businessman,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
In the Grip of Life is about a former variety singer named Juliane Gihle. She betrays her rich but old husband with the young Alexander Blumenschøn, who is not sympathetically portrayed. She in turn is betrayed, finally ending in the arms of a black, 18 year old servant, "Boy".
19) August
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
Allegorical presentation of American industrialism in Europe. Translated from the Norwegian.