Description
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
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 is one of the great writers of this century - his nearest British equivalent being I suspect Thomas Hardy. Hamsun's novels have a unique beauty of expression. * Sunday Times *
Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, the completest omniscience about human nature. -- Rebecca West
A rare understanding of human nature comes through, expressed in a measured, elegiac and lyrical prose. * Sunday Telegraph *
With Mysteries, Hamsun rewrote the novel's rules * Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788165440
Author Knut Hamsun
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 260g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 26mm