Mysteries (novel)

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Mysteries (Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is a novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.

Plot introduction

In this intensely psychological Modernist^[1] novel, the community of a small Norwegian coastal town is "[shaken]"^[2] by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel. An eccentric stranger who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeoisie inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations.^[3]

Release details

Mysteries, Knut Hamsun, Penguin Books, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-14-118618-6

References

↑ James Wood. "Addicted to Unpredictability." November 26, 1998. London Review. November 8, 2008 <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n23/wood02_.html>
↑ Sven Birkerts. Introduction. Mysteries. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006: 10
↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0141186186

v t e Works by Knut Hamsun

Hunger (1890) Mysteries (1892) Pan (1894) Victoria (1898) In Wonderland (1903) Mothwise (1904) Under the Autumn Star (1906) Benoni (1908) Rosa (1908) Segelfoss Town (1915) Growth of the Soil (1917) The Women at the Pump (1920) Wayfarers (1927) August (1930) The Road Leads On (1933) The Ring is Closed (1936) On Overgrown Paths (1949)

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