Pan by Knut Hamsun

Pan by Knut Hamsun

In his 1894 breakthrough novel, Pan, Knut Hamsun provides a lyrical, yet disturbing analysis of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds alone, save only for his faithful dog, Aesop. Living out of a rudimentary 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. Edvarda is the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town and both are strongly attracted to one another, but neither understands the other's love. Glahn becomes overwhelmed by the society of people where Edvarda lives and suffers a series of tragedies during their time together.A new translation by Terence Cave of Hamsun's 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes.

Given the rarity of non-British/American novels in the main canon, it is a good idea for this work to be assigned in a world literature classAnd a copy of it should also be available in all types of libraries to make it accessible to the different types of readers and scholars who might be interested in accessing it. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *

Tore Rem is Professor of British literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. His books include Dickens, Melodrama and the Parodic Imagination (2002), Henry Gibson/Henrik Ibsen (2006), and a two-volume biography of the Norwegian playwright and public intellectual Jens Bjørneboe. He is the author of many articles on Ibsen's English-language reception, and is engaged in the research project 'The Scandinavian Moment in World Literature.' He is currently Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. Terence Cave is Emeritus Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College. He is the author of The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (1979), Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (2011), and many other studies in French and comparative literature. He is currently director of the project 'Literature as an Object of Knowledge', based at the St John's College Research Centre.

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ISBN 13	9780192893451
ISBN 10	0192893459
Title	Pan
Author	Knut Hamsun
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2023-06-14
Number of pages	176
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