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This primitivism (and its concomitant distrust of all things modern) found its fullest expression in Hamsun’s masterpiece Markens Grøde (1917).

Hamsun’s work is determined by a deep aversion to civilization and the belief that man’s only fulfilment lies with the soil. The novel Sult (1890) and even more so Pan (1894) led to Hamsun’s literary breakthrough and Sult is regarded as the first genuinely modern novel in Norwegian literature. He spent some years in America, travelling and working as a tram driver, and published his impressions, chiefly satirical, under the title Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv (1889). From early childhood he was a shoemaker’s apprentice, but was also a road worker, stonemason, junior-level teacher, and so on. K nut Hamsun (1859-1952) was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, and grew up in poverty in Hamarøy in Nordland. Share via Email: Knut Hamsun – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Knut Hamsun – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Knut Hamsun – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Knut Hamsun – Biographical Share this content on Facebook.This superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an informative introduction.

Pan provides a lyrical, yet disturbing analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche. Pan's quasi-musical modulations of pace and rhythm, its haunting use of leitmotifs which contract and distend time, its startling versions of myth and legend, and its ecstatic evocations of nature in its various phases and moods, all attest to the novel's Modernist innovations. A man of fascinating complexity, Glahn is in some respects a modern successor to a long line of "superfluous" men in western literature, an heir to Goethe's Werther and the protagonists of Turgenev and Dostoyevsky.īut this portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, explores the veiled mysteries of the unconscious by means of thoroughly modern techniques. First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's Pan is former lieutenant Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods.