Knut Hamsun

Bokens hovedpersoner er den tilreisende jeger løytnant Thomas Glahn og datteren til den lokale handelsmannen Mack, Edvarda. Men i tillegg til å romme nordnorske miljøskildinger og en kjærlighetshistorie, er romanen en lyrisk studie av natur og menneskesinn – hele verket «dønner av mystikk og spenning», for å sitere Hamsun selv. Denne utgaven av Pan er basert på Samlede verker 1–27 (2007–2009, ny utgave). Teksten har her gjennomgått en varsom språklig revisjon i retning av moderne riksmål. «Jeg har arbeidet tyngre med denne fordømte Edvarda enn med alle mine bøker.» Knut Hamsun om Edvarda i Pan «Pan – det er nyromantikkens evangelium. Det er en av de mest dyrebare poesier i nordisk litteratur.» Kristian ElsterKnut Hamsun ble født 4. august 1859 i Gudbrandsdalen. I 1862 flyttet familien til Hamarøy i Nordland. Hamsun fikk sitt litterære gjennombrudd i 1888 med et fragment av det som senere skulle bli boken Sult (1890). I 1920 mottok han Nobelprisen for romanen Markens grøde (1917). Hamsuns protyske holdning under 2. verdenskrig førte ham inn i et motsetningsforhold til størstedelen av det norske folk. I 1949 utga han På gjengrodde stier, der han reflekterte over sin livsskjebne. Etter mer enn 70 år i tjeneste hos ordene døde Hamsun 19. februar 1952 på sin gård, Nørholm, ved Grimstad.Hamsundagene

The Nobel Prize winner's poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love's predicament in a class-bound societyA Penguin Classic Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a miller's son turned poet, finds inspiration for his writing in his passionate devotion to Victoria, a daughter of the impoverished lord of the manor, who feels constrained by family loyalty to accept the wealthy young man of her father's choice. Separated by class barriers and social pressure, the fated duo hurt and enthrall each other by turns as they move toward an emotional doom that neither will recognize until it is too late. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy. A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as 'Blood and Blossoms'.

Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly the foremost creative writer of the Scandinavian countries. Those approaching most nearly to his position are probably Selma Lagerl f in Sweden and Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark. Both these, however, seem to have less than he of that width of outlook, validity of interpretation and authority of tone that made the greater masters what they were.

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality. Arising from Hamsun's belief that literature ought to be about the mysterious workings of the human mind -- an attempt, he wrote, to describe "the whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow" -- Hunger is a landmark work that pointed the way toward a new kind of novel. "The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. They were all Hamsun's disciples: Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler . . . and even such American writers are Fitzgerald and Hemingway." --Isaac Bashevis Singer

In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived."

A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner's first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on "an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body." Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

Sult av Knut Hamsun er en av norgeshistoriens viktigste romaner. Allerede i andreutgaven ble det gjort betydelige endringer som har fulgt boken frem til vår tid. I denne utgaven gjøres førsteutgaven fra 1890 på nytt tilgjengelig, med et omfattende nyskrevet etterord av idéhistoriker og litteraturprofessor Eivind Tjønneland. Etterordet presenterer ny forskning som stiller lesningen av romanen i et nytt, relevant og oppsiktsvekkende lys.