Mysteries
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003TEFV1C
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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...