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Author_Knut Hamsun
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fin de siecle literature
forerunners to postmodernism
hunger
ibsen
isaac bashevis singer
james joyce
James Wood
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Knausgaard
Nobel Prize winning novels
Norwegian literature
Vigdis Hjorth
virginia woolf
Product details
- ISBN 9781788165440
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.
A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave very curiously. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open defiance and erratic self-revelations.
Nagel's presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the townsfolk. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own destruction.
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.
