“hamsun knut”

This beautiful and moving story of young love was hailed by the New York Times as ‘a sustained feat of shimmering lyricism’. The lovers are Johannes, the miller’s son, and Victoria, daughter of the lord of the manor. Their brief moment of ecstasy is as transitory as their dreams. Separated for... More

In their gossiping at the pumps the women express the poetry, the tawdriness and, above all, the sheer vitality of life in Hamsun’s small costal town. A birth (where did those brown eyes come from?); a marriage (shotgun?); a death in strang circumstances (the victim flattened by a barrel of whale ... More

Growth of the Soil is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Isak, a worker of the land, with its roots in man’s deepest myths about the struggle to cultivate the land and make it fertile. The novel moves at the pace of the passing ... More

As the modern industrialized world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town of northern Norway, the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins it brings, progressive alienation from the old tradition; for August, the lying, charming scoundrel, it means opp... More

Pure comedy, this delightful novel follows an engaging reprobate who makes good, despite himself. Ove Rolandsen, a telegraph operator in an isolated fishing village in northern Norway, is a man of sudden passion, a cheerful rogue fond of girls and alchol. He constantly hatches ambitious schemes to t... More

The Wanderer, which consists of two closely related novels, Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings, has been acclaimed as one of Knut Hamsun’s finest works. The narrator, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun’s real name), is an unsimple character in search of the simple life, which he hopes to attain by w... More

Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town. His presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and dark... More

A fishing boat plies off Newfoundland, crewed by immigrants with no common language; a young boy finds a tooth in a graveyard and is hunted by its owner; a flighty young woman drives a man to murder and suicide . . . . With twenty stories ranging over every imaginable human emotion and situation, T... More

One of Knut Hamsun's most famous works, "Pan" is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man who lives alone in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. Glahn's life changes when he meets Edvarda, a merchant's daughter, whom he quickly falls in love with. She, however, is not entirely fai... More

He does not write for the masses, no, answered the Attorney. "He writes for the chosen few. But his friends know that he has many beautiful things unpublished. Good God, what a master! It is impossible to place one's finger on a single thing he has done and say that it is below par. He is sitting in... More