Mysteries

The outstanding Norwegian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), is called a master of psychological prose, who revealed the slightest movements of the human soul. The theme of love sounds especially penetrating and emotional in the works of the prose writer. It is worth adding: tragic. It is love-suffering that Knut Hamsun depicts in the novels "Mysteries", "Pan", "Victoria", which are presented in this edition. Because the feeling that flares up between the main characters can be called all-encompassing, passionate, but by no means happy. The relationship between the lovers immediately takes on a dramatic character, becoming love-struggle, a kind of duel in which there are no winners. The book also contains the story "The Death of Glan", which is considered a kind of epilogue to the novel "Pan".