Mysteries
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374217648 (0374217645)
Publish date: August 1st 1971
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (NY)
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Modern,
Psychology,
Nobel Prize,
Scandinavian Literature
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction & NotesSuggestions for Further ReadingTranslator's Note--MysteriesExplanatory NotesTextual Notes
It's a book you need to set aside time for. I think those who like Updike and Bellow will really dig this.
My copy of this book heaps extravagant praise on Hamsun and I began reading with my skeptical faculties on full alert (because there's usually an inverse relationship between the height of the heap of praise and the quality of the book). But this time the accolades are justified.Hamsun, like Ibsen a...