Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review The story tells is as gripping as ever, and its descriptions of nature remain original. Review Quotes By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Knut Hamsuns writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Sverre Lyngstads superb translation of Hamsuns 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsuns original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Living out of a rude 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. Book Synopsis The Nobel Prize winners lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche A Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norways northernmost wilds.

This superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsuns original and includes an informative Introduction. PAN provides a lyrical, yet disturbing, analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche. About the Book First published in 1894, Knut Hamsuns PAN recounts Thomas Glahns retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods.

Pan by Knut Hamsun