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賴賱 毓丕丿 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 廿賱賶 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱賷賰鬲亘 賳氐丕賸 兀丿亘賷丕賸 賳卮乇 鬲丨鬲 丕爻賲 賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賳 責 丕賲 兀賳 賴賳丕賰 亘丕賱賮毓賱 乇賵丕卅賷丕賸 丌禺乇 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷氐賱 廿賱賶 匕乇賵丞 丕賱鬲丨賱賷賱 丕賱賳賮爻賷 賮賷 卮禺賵氐 兀亘胤丕賱賴 亘賯丿乇 賲丕 賰丕賳 賷賮毓賱 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷 責 賱賯丿 匕賴亘 兀丨丿 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷賷賳 廿賱賶 丨丿賵丿 丕賱廿賯乇丕乇 亘兀賳 賴丕賲爻賳 鬲禺胤賶 丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷 賳賮爻賴貙 賯丿 賱丕 兀鬲賮賯 賲毓賴 亘卮賰賱 賰丕賲賱 賵賱賰賳 亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 兀爻乇丕乇 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 兀賯賵賱 廿賳 賴丕賲爻賳 賵氐賱 廿賱賶 賲賳丕胤賯 賲禺賷賮丞 賮賷 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賱賲 賷氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕 丿賵賷鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷 賳賮爻賴 . 賱賲 兀鬲禺賷賱 亘兀賳賷 爻兀賯賵賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賱丕賲 賮賷 賷賵賲 賲賳 丕賱兀賷丕賲 貙 賵賱賰賳 賴丕賲爻賳 賮毓賱賴丕 亘噩丿丕乇丞 貙 賵賰丕賳鬲 賲賮丕噩卅丞 亘丕賱賳爻丞 廿賱賷 貙 賲賮丕噩兀丞 賱賲 兀鬲禺賷賱賴丕 丨賯丕賸 .
賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕 賷爻賳丿 賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賳 亘賱 賷囟乇亘 貙 賵賰兀賳 賲丕 賷賰鬲亘 亘賴 丕賱賳氐 賲胤乇賯丞 賵賱賷爻 賯賱賲丕賸 . 賲胤乇賯丞 鬲丨胤賲 賵鬲亘毓孬乇 . 賵賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱囟乇亘 丕賱爻乇丿賷 賲賯丿賵丿 賲賳 賱睾丞 毓匕亘丞 賵卮毓乇賷丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 .
賷丨賮乇 賴丕賲爻賳 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴 賵賱丕 賷賰賮 毓賳 丕賱丨賮乇 鈥� 賲賳 賯丕賱 廿賳 賴賳丕賰 毓賲賯丕賸 賯丿 賷賳鬲賴賷 責 賮賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱睾賷乇 賴丕賵賷丞 爻丨賷賯丞 貙 賴丕賵賷丞 賱丕 賯乇丕乇 賱賴
賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕 賷爻賳丿 賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賳 亘賱 賷囟乇亘 貙 賵賰兀賳 賲丕 賷賰鬲亘 亘賴 丕賱賳氐 賲胤乇賯丞 賵賱賷爻 賯賱賲丕賸 . 賲胤乇賯丞 鬲丨胤賲 賵鬲亘毓孬乇 . 賵賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱囟乇亘 丕賱爻乇丿賷 賲賯丿賵丿 賲賳 賱睾丞 毓匕亘丞 賵卮毓乇賷丞 賱賱睾丕賷丞 .
賷丨賮乇 賴丕賲爻賳 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴 賵賱丕 賷賰賮 毓賳 丕賱丨賮乇 鈥� 賲賳 賯丕賱 廿賳 賴賳丕賰 毓賲賯丕賸 賯丿 賷賳鬲賴賷 責 賮賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱睾賷乇 賴丕賵賷丞 爻丨賷賯丞 貙 賴丕賵賷丞 賱丕 賯乇丕乇 賱賴
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First published January 1, 1892
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Knut Hamsun
661听books2,352听followersNovels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include
Hunger
(1890) and
The Growth of the Soil
(1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.
He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.
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April 8, 2024
Eccentric persons live in their own eccentric world鈥� And their world is full of mysteries鈥�
A mysterious stranger comes into a one horse town鈥�
His behaviour is unusual鈥� His purpose is unknown鈥� The whole town is intrigued鈥� He himself is surprised by his arrival鈥�
He seems to be unhappy鈥� He endeavours to help the miserable of the town鈥� He falls in love鈥� His unhappiness increases鈥� His head is full of fantasies鈥� He doesn鈥檛 know anymore where his fantasies end and reality begins鈥�
It is easier to hide in the world of illusions than to live in the real world.
A mysterious stranger comes into a one horse town鈥�
Below medium height, he had a swarthy face with curiously dark eyes and a sensitive, effeminate mouth. On one finger he wore a plain ring of lead or iron. He was very broad-shouldered and might be twenty-eight or, at most, thirty years old. His hair was turning gray at the temples.
His behaviour is unusual鈥� His purpose is unknown鈥� The whole town is intrigued鈥� He himself is surprised by his arrival鈥�
Why do I meddle in other people鈥檚 affairs? Why did I come to this town in the first place? Was it because of some cosmic disaster, because of Gladstone鈥檚 cold, for example? Heh-heh-heh, God help you, child, if you tell the truth: that actually you were on your way home but were suddenly so deeply moved at the sight of this town 鈥� small and miserable as it is 鈥� that you almost wept with a strange, mysterious joy when you saw all those flags.
He seems to be unhappy鈥� He endeavours to help the miserable of the town鈥� He falls in love鈥� His unhappiness increases鈥� His head is full of fantasies鈥� He doesn鈥檛 know anymore where his fantasies end and reality begins鈥�
It鈥檚 not at all a question of creating an uproar among a crowd of lawyers, journalists or Galilean fishermen, or of publishing a monograph on Napoleon le petit. The important thing is to affect and educate power, the superior, chosen few, the masters of life, the great ones, Caiaphas, Pilate, and the emperor. What good would it do to create a stir among the rabble if I were to be nailed to the cross, in spite of everything?
It is easier to hide in the world of illusions than to live in the real world.
September 4, 2023
Hamsun鈥檚 aptly named second novel, Mysteries, is a dazzling, dark look into human nature and man鈥檚 psyche. It is no surprise that claimed that Mysteries was 鈥檆loser to me than any book I have read,鈥� this novel is so probing and insightful that you feel it begin to pick your own mind as the pages churn by. Written in 1892, just 2 years following Hunger, this novel once again demonstrates Hamsun鈥檚 signature frantic yet serene prose while showcasing Hamsun as a Modernist far ahead of his time and a master of the 鈥榩sychological novel鈥�. Plunging into the existential mysteries of the human heart and soul, Hamsun pens some of his most memorable characters while keeping the reader forever pondering the truth behind the abundant mysteries.
Hamsun is a difficult one to grapple with. When I read him about a decade ago I really enjoyed his work but now, writing this in 2019, I am less willing to overlook the misogyny in his work and his troubled history late in life. He died having been denounced by his homeland and is lesser known nowadays due to his sympathetic association to the Nazi party during WWII. I went into more detail of this in my review for , but this association cost him his fame and caused to widespread burning of his books in Norway and the relative popular neglect for his works in the United States following the war. He was an incredible author whose name holds up to his comparisons to , but the politics of his later life are rather quite offputting.
Mysteries places the human psyche under Hamsun鈥檚 microscope. Much like his first novel, the great , this novel follows the concise rise and fall of emotions in the protagonist, creating a well rounded depiction of a man in the grips of mania and excitement. We follow the loquacious ravings, often liquor-fueled, of our hero, Johan Nilsen Nagel, from a calm steady conversation to the height of frenzy, and are shown glimpses through a cloudy window of the mind to his introspective obsessions. This is fully believable and creates for an intense, unpredictable character.
There is a wonderfully ironic moment when Martha Gude takes leave of Nagel to go see a preforming magician since the real magician of this novel is Nagel himself who preforms an elaborate smoke and mirrors trick of personality throughout the novel. The true nature of Nagel, is never fully revealed, instead, the reader must discern what they can as small pieces of the whole are glimpsed, then hidden again behind contradictory evidence. This eccentric stranger, dressed in a loud yellow suit who keeps the town on edge and full of gossip with his erratic behavior, is a 鈥檞alking contradiction鈥� , as Dagny is quick to point out and Nagel is eager to uphold. The reader learns of his lifesavers medal, for example, which he speaks aloud that he earned rescuing a drowning man while on passage to Hamburg, however later on, he adamantly claims to Dagny that is was purchased from a pawn store. He tells the town he is an agronomist, yet it is hinted that this is merely a ruse. Even his name may be false. The biggest insights can only be hinted through a cryptic conversation between him and a former lover whom speak in 鈥檈lliptical allusions to the past and used words and phrases that had meaning only for them鈥�.
The nature of this novel is akin to the mysterious nature of the protagonist. Choosing to write from a third person perspective, Hamsun is able to remove the reader from any situation that could give too much away. Unlike Hunger where the reader was a fly on the wall of the narrators internal monologues, the secrets of Nagel are kept from us. Hamsun does occasionally have Nagel speak aloud in long tirades of his inner thoughts, but this is used sparingly and creates a bit of unevenness in the writing, although it is ultimately not distracting. This third person perspective is highly efficient to the delivery of this story, as the reader often learns of Nagel鈥檚 whereabouts from his mouth as he professes them to the townsfolk. However, the reader quickly learns to take everything with a grain of salt and we are often left wondering if he speaks the truth, or perhaps even a half-truth.
Hamsun makes remarkable use of Nagel鈥檚 long, mercurial rants, often crafting them as small allegories of the surrounding events and people. Nagel speaks in a breathtaking prose laden with symbols and metaphors that always tell much more just beneath the surface of his sparkling words. His tales are often elaborate and outlandish, earning him quite a reputation around town. He also uses Nagel as his mouthpiece for literary and political criticisms, bashing many of the Norwegian politicians of the day, criticizing the capital city and the artists who inhabit it (although, speaking of contradictions, he spoke lovingly of this city, Kristiana, in the opening lines of Hunger), and spitting a brutal assault on both and the highly regarded Norwegian playwright . To digress a mere moment, Hamsun was an outspoken critic of Ibsen, who was quite popular at the time. In the year succeeding the popular release of Hunger, Hamsun invited Ibsen to attend a lecture of his and offered him the front and center seat in a room full of other writers of great notoriety. He then went on to lambaste Ibsen鈥檚 work to his face saying his plays were 鈥檌ndefensibly coarse and artificial psychology鈥�. There is an article featuring this story and a good overview of Hamsun鈥檚 biography .
The real brilliance of this novel is how Nagel serves as a barometer of human nature and in juxtaposition with him, the true nature of the various members of the town can be seen with crystal clear accuracy. While Nagel may be erratic and potentially manic, his boldness reveals an unapologetic image of himself, which brings out the truth in others. The closed mindedness, the destructiveness, the arrogance, and all the other hidden demons float to the surface around Nagel. This can also show a character in a positive light, or just as a harmless windbag who cannot help but vomit their opinions into any available ear. Nagel asserts that there are no selfless acts and that every man has a secret vice, including those who may seem like the most saintly, good-natured folk among us. Each one of us carries a bit of demon somewhere inside. While one may give a small chunk of change to a beggar on the street may seem as 鈥榮elfless鈥� as it gets, Nagel would argue that does this not cause the giver to feel an inner peace at helping another, which is itself a selfish reward. This existential probe begs the reader to examine his or her own life, and examine their own opinion on Nagel as it may reveal a great deal about them.
This story has no true linear plot, but sets Hamsun鈥檚 colorful cast in one town and allows them to simply interact. Due to this storytelling device, many critics have labeled Hamsun as one of the first early Modernists, and many authors followed in his footsteps. claimed that 鈥橦amsun taught me to write鈥� (thanks wiki), and after reading the often drunk and frenzied lead characters of his early works one can understand why was such a fervent fan and claimed he used Hamsun as a 鈥檞riting crutch鈥�. His unique style, voice, and his monumental simplistic prose have caused him to quickly become one of my favorites. This novel is not as direct and concise as Hunger, yet it can be felt that Hamsun was reaching his talents out to greater heights and experimenting with perspective and layering of time (there are many amazing instances where Hamsun will seamlessly follow from various past incidents and present goings-on all within one flowing paragraph without the reader becoming lost), so the rough patches that are slightly noticeable within this book are understandable. He makes up for it ten-fold.
once wrote that one should not 鈥檙ead books for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters鈥� but for the sake of their form, their visions, their art鈥� (). I have always tried to keep this in mind while devouring a novel, and I have very much appreciated this novel for its aesthetic purposes (I hope), but I fell for that infantile impulse to identify with Nagel. He has become one of my favorite characters found in literature, right up there with the Underground Man and Steinbeck's Samuel Hamilton. While this novel isn鈥檛 quite as close to perfection as Hunger, which few novels are, Mysteries is my favorite of Hamsun鈥檚 novels, although I would recommend the former if you are looking for an introduction to his work. This novel has an ending out of left field and will keep your mind spinning for days to come as you try to piece together the mysteries Nagel left behind. Who is this eccentric stranger? Does he really know more than he lets on, and how does he know these secrets that lurk inside? Is he crazy, or simply genius? Hamsun leaves that for you to decide.
4/5
Hamsun is a difficult one to grapple with. When I read him about a decade ago I really enjoyed his work but now, writing this in 2019, I am less willing to overlook the misogyny in his work and his troubled history late in life. He died having been denounced by his homeland and is lesser known nowadays due to his sympathetic association to the Nazi party during WWII. I went into more detail of this in my review for , but this association cost him his fame and caused to widespread burning of his books in Norway and the relative popular neglect for his works in the United States following the war. He was an incredible author whose name holds up to his comparisons to , but the politics of his later life are rather quite offputting.
Mysteries places the human psyche under Hamsun鈥檚 microscope. Much like his first novel, the great , this novel follows the concise rise and fall of emotions in the protagonist, creating a well rounded depiction of a man in the grips of mania and excitement. We follow the loquacious ravings, often liquor-fueled, of our hero, Johan Nilsen Nagel, from a calm steady conversation to the height of frenzy, and are shown glimpses through a cloudy window of the mind to his introspective obsessions. This is fully believable and creates for an intense, unpredictable character.
There is a wonderfully ironic moment when Martha Gude takes leave of Nagel to go see a preforming magician since the real magician of this novel is Nagel himself who preforms an elaborate smoke and mirrors trick of personality throughout the novel. The true nature of Nagel, is never fully revealed, instead, the reader must discern what they can as small pieces of the whole are glimpsed, then hidden again behind contradictory evidence. This eccentric stranger, dressed in a loud yellow suit who keeps the town on edge and full of gossip with his erratic behavior, is a 鈥檞alking contradiction鈥� , as Dagny is quick to point out and Nagel is eager to uphold. The reader learns of his lifesavers medal, for example, which he speaks aloud that he earned rescuing a drowning man while on passage to Hamburg, however later on, he adamantly claims to Dagny that is was purchased from a pawn store. He tells the town he is an agronomist, yet it is hinted that this is merely a ruse. Even his name may be false. The biggest insights can only be hinted through a cryptic conversation between him and a former lover whom speak in 鈥檈lliptical allusions to the past and used words and phrases that had meaning only for them鈥�.
The nature of this novel is akin to the mysterious nature of the protagonist. Choosing to write from a third person perspective, Hamsun is able to remove the reader from any situation that could give too much away. Unlike Hunger where the reader was a fly on the wall of the narrators internal monologues, the secrets of Nagel are kept from us. Hamsun does occasionally have Nagel speak aloud in long tirades of his inner thoughts, but this is used sparingly and creates a bit of unevenness in the writing, although it is ultimately not distracting. This third person perspective is highly efficient to the delivery of this story, as the reader often learns of Nagel鈥檚 whereabouts from his mouth as he professes them to the townsfolk. However, the reader quickly learns to take everything with a grain of salt and we are often left wondering if he speaks the truth, or perhaps even a half-truth.
Hamsun makes remarkable use of Nagel鈥檚 long, mercurial rants, often crafting them as small allegories of the surrounding events and people. Nagel speaks in a breathtaking prose laden with symbols and metaphors that always tell much more just beneath the surface of his sparkling words. His tales are often elaborate and outlandish, earning him quite a reputation around town. He also uses Nagel as his mouthpiece for literary and political criticisms, bashing many of the Norwegian politicians of the day, criticizing the capital city and the artists who inhabit it (although, speaking of contradictions, he spoke lovingly of this city, Kristiana, in the opening lines of Hunger), and spitting a brutal assault on both and the highly regarded Norwegian playwright . To digress a mere moment, Hamsun was an outspoken critic of Ibsen, who was quite popular at the time. In the year succeeding the popular release of Hunger, Hamsun invited Ibsen to attend a lecture of his and offered him the front and center seat in a room full of other writers of great notoriety. He then went on to lambaste Ibsen鈥檚 work to his face saying his plays were 鈥檌ndefensibly coarse and artificial psychology鈥�. There is an article featuring this story and a good overview of Hamsun鈥檚 biography .
The real brilliance of this novel is how Nagel serves as a barometer of human nature and in juxtaposition with him, the true nature of the various members of the town can be seen with crystal clear accuracy. While Nagel may be erratic and potentially manic, his boldness reveals an unapologetic image of himself, which brings out the truth in others. The closed mindedness, the destructiveness, the arrogance, and all the other hidden demons float to the surface around Nagel. This can also show a character in a positive light, or just as a harmless windbag who cannot help but vomit their opinions into any available ear. Nagel asserts that there are no selfless acts and that every man has a secret vice, including those who may seem like the most saintly, good-natured folk among us. Each one of us carries a bit of demon somewhere inside. While one may give a small chunk of change to a beggar on the street may seem as 鈥榮elfless鈥� as it gets, Nagel would argue that does this not cause the giver to feel an inner peace at helping another, which is itself a selfish reward. This existential probe begs the reader to examine his or her own life, and examine their own opinion on Nagel as it may reveal a great deal about them.
This story has no true linear plot, but sets Hamsun鈥檚 colorful cast in one town and allows them to simply interact. Due to this storytelling device, many critics have labeled Hamsun as one of the first early Modernists, and many authors followed in his footsteps. claimed that 鈥橦amsun taught me to write鈥� (thanks wiki), and after reading the often drunk and frenzied lead characters of his early works one can understand why was such a fervent fan and claimed he used Hamsun as a 鈥檞riting crutch鈥�. His unique style, voice, and his monumental simplistic prose have caused him to quickly become one of my favorites. This novel is not as direct and concise as Hunger, yet it can be felt that Hamsun was reaching his talents out to greater heights and experimenting with perspective and layering of time (there are many amazing instances where Hamsun will seamlessly follow from various past incidents and present goings-on all within one flowing paragraph without the reader becoming lost), so the rough patches that are slightly noticeable within this book are understandable. He makes up for it ten-fold.
once wrote that one should not 鈥檙ead books for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters鈥� but for the sake of their form, their visions, their art鈥� (). I have always tried to keep this in mind while devouring a novel, and I have very much appreciated this novel for its aesthetic purposes (I hope), but I fell for that infantile impulse to identify with Nagel. He has become one of my favorite characters found in literature, right up there with the Underground Man and Steinbeck's Samuel Hamilton. While this novel isn鈥檛 quite as close to perfection as Hunger, which few novels are, Mysteries is my favorite of Hamsun鈥檚 novels, although I would recommend the former if you are looking for an introduction to his work. This novel has an ending out of left field and will keep your mind spinning for days to come as you try to piece together the mysteries Nagel left behind. Who is this eccentric stranger? Does he really know more than he lets on, and how does he know these secrets that lurk inside? Is he crazy, or simply genius? Hamsun leaves that for you to decide.
4/5
November 13, 2009
I refused to read Hamsun for a long time, on the grounds that he was a Nazi sympathizer. But I started getting interested in modern Norwegian literature a couple of years ago, and in the end I had to give in. You just can't avoid him; he's referred to everywhere. And if I find him hard to deal with, I'm comforted by the fact that it's much worse for the Norwegians.
Let me expand on that a bit. I'm English by birth, and I've also lived a fair amount of my life in Sweden and the US. None of those countries have ever been occupied by a foreign power (people from the American South may disagree). We don't know what it's like, and it's difficult to understand from the outside. When you read books from countries like France and Norway, which have recently suffered the experience of being occupied, you start to get some idea. The best comparison I can find is that it's like being raped. It's a shameful and degrading thing that you don't want to talk about unless you have to.
Now, suppose that you're a woman who's been abducted by a psychopath who keeps you for years in his cellar, and comes down every now and then to rape and torture you. And then suppose that your big brother, whom you've always loved and admired, gets friendly with the rapist. He visits every now and then. You're lying there bruised and bleeding in the cellar, and you can hear your brother and the rapist laughing together and playing cards in the kitchen above you. It was rather like that with Hamsun and the Norwegians. He was their greatest living author. Everyone had read him; Norwegians are an exceptionally literate people. During World War II, while Norway was occupied, Hamsun expressed his deep admiration for the Nazis. He gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels, and he met Hitler. When Hitler killed himself, Hamsun wrote him a flattering obituary. You can understand the scene in Christensen's Halvbroren, where the grandmother, a sympathetic character, burns all Hamsun's works in her stove. But the same book constantly mentions Hamsun's novels, and the author makes it clear how deep his artistic debt is. Jan Kj忙rstad, in 贵辞谤蹿酶谤别谤别苍, has similar problems. The section on Hamsun is very interesting.
After the war, the Norwegian government simply didn't know what to do. Their solution was to determine that Hamsun was legally insane. He was also fined a large amount of money. Well, they may have been right. To the extent that the word "insane" means anything, I agree. But it was an unusual form of insanity. Hamsun had an unparalleled ability to project his feelings so that other people could experience them too; when I read Mysterier, it was almost as though I had gone through Doctor Parnassus's magic mirror, and found myself inside his crazed mind. Or, to use another analogy, remember the sequence from Mary Poppins where Bert and the kids jump into the picture; but instead of the anodyne country scene that Bert has drawn on the sidewalk, imagine that they have leaped into one of Van Gogh's last paintings. It's an unpleasant and frightening book, but a remarkably powerful one.
The language is extraordinary. Here are two passages I particularly liked, with my translations.
Let me expand on that a bit. I'm English by birth, and I've also lived a fair amount of my life in Sweden and the US. None of those countries have ever been occupied by a foreign power (people from the American South may disagree). We don't know what it's like, and it's difficult to understand from the outside. When you read books from countries like France and Norway, which have recently suffered the experience of being occupied, you start to get some idea. The best comparison I can find is that it's like being raped. It's a shameful and degrading thing that you don't want to talk about unless you have to.
Now, suppose that you're a woman who's been abducted by a psychopath who keeps you for years in his cellar, and comes down every now and then to rape and torture you. And then suppose that your big brother, whom you've always loved and admired, gets friendly with the rapist. He visits every now and then. You're lying there bruised and bleeding in the cellar, and you can hear your brother and the rapist laughing together and playing cards in the kitchen above you. It was rather like that with Hamsun and the Norwegians. He was their greatest living author. Everyone had read him; Norwegians are an exceptionally literate people. During World War II, while Norway was occupied, Hamsun expressed his deep admiration for the Nazis. He gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels, and he met Hitler. When Hitler killed himself, Hamsun wrote him a flattering obituary. You can understand the scene in Christensen's Halvbroren, where the grandmother, a sympathetic character, burns all Hamsun's works in her stove. But the same book constantly mentions Hamsun's novels, and the author makes it clear how deep his artistic debt is. Jan Kj忙rstad, in 贵辞谤蹿酶谤别谤别苍, has similar problems. The section on Hamsun is very interesting.
After the war, the Norwegian government simply didn't know what to do. Their solution was to determine that Hamsun was legally insane. He was also fined a large amount of money. Well, they may have been right. To the extent that the word "insane" means anything, I agree. But it was an unusual form of insanity. Hamsun had an unparalleled ability to project his feelings so that other people could experience them too; when I read Mysterier, it was almost as though I had gone through Doctor Parnassus's magic mirror, and found myself inside his crazed mind. Or, to use another analogy, remember the sequence from Mary Poppins where Bert and the kids jump into the picture; but instead of the anodyne country scene that Bert has drawn on the sidewalk, imagine that they have leaped into one of Van Gogh's last paintings. It's an unpleasant and frightening book, but a remarkably powerful one.
The language is extraordinary. Here are two passages I particularly liked, with my translations.
Det minder mig litt om en nat p氓 Middelhavet, p氓 kysten av Tunis. Det var vel hundrede passagerer ombord, et sangkor som kom fra Sardinien et sted. Jeg h酶rte ikke til selskapet og kunde ikke synge, jeg sat bare p氓 d忙kket og h酶rte p氓 mens koret sang nedenunder i salonen. Det varte n忙sten hele natten; jeg skal aldrig glemme hvor det lydde godt i den lumre nat. Jeg trek i smug alle d酶rer til salongen i; t忙ttet sangen inde, s氓 氓 si, og s氓 var det som lyden kom fra havsbunden, ja som om skibet skulde g氓 ind i evigheten med brusende musik. Tenk Dem noget i retning av et hav fuldt av sang, et underjordisk kor.And later, in the scene which I think explains the title:
Fr酶ken Andresen som satt Nagel n忙rmest sa uvilk氓rlig:
Ja Gud hvor det m氓tte v忙re deilig!
It reminds me a little of a night I once experienced on the Mediterranean, off the coast of Tunis. There were a hundred or so passengers on board, a choir who came from somewhere in Sardinia. I wasn't in their party and I couldn't sing myself, I just sat there on the deck and listened while the choir sang underneath me in the saloon. They sang nearly all night; I will never forget how wonderful it sounded in the warm darkness. I sneaked down and closed all the doors; concentrated the essence of the song, as it were, and it was as though the sound came from the bottom of the sea, as though the ship was sailing into eternity on the music. Imagine something like a sea full of singing, an underwater choir.
Fr酶ken Andresen, who was sitting closest to Nagel, said involuntarily:
"Oh my God, it must have been so beautiful"
Stemmen er en farlig apparat. Forst氓 mig ret: jeg mener ikke netop stemmens materielle lyd, den kan v忙re h酶i eller lav, klangfuld eller r氓, jeg mener ikke det stemmestofelige, tonetillv忙relsen, nei jeg holder mig til mysteriet bak den, den verden som den utg氓r fr氓n ... Til helvete forresten med denne verden bak! Altid ska det v忙re en verden bak! Hvad fan raker det mig?I'm not sure what this means, to be honest, but I feel it's saying something important. Maybe someone can explain it to me. Mostly, I feel relieved to have escaped intact from the Imaginarium.
The voice is a dangerous instrument. Understand me correctly: I don't mean simply the material quality of the sound, whether it's high or low, melodious or harsh. I don't mean the acoustic or prosodic properties. I'm talking about the mystery behind it, the world it comes from... Oh, never mind, fuck the world behind it! There's always supposed to be a world behind things! What's it got to do with me?
February 19, 2021
乇賵丕賷丞 賲爻賰賵賳丞 亘丕賱兀爻乇丕乇 賱賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷 賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賳
乇噩賱 睾乇賷亘 丕賱兀胤賵丕乇 賷賳夭賱 賲賳 爻賮賷賳丞 廿賱賶 亘賱丿丞 賳乇賵賷噩賷丞 氐睾賷乇丞
賲孬賷乇 賱賱丕賳鬲亘丕賴 賵丕賱乇賷亘丞 亘兀賮賰丕乇賴 賵丌乇丕丐賴 丕賱丨丕丿丞 丕賱睾賷乇 鬲賯賱賷丿賷丞
丨賰丕賷丕鬲賴 賵兀丨丕丿賷孬賴 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴 賲夭賷噩 賲購丨賷乇 亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱兀賰丕匕賷亘
禺賱丕賱 丕賱爻乇丿 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 兀賴賱 丕賱亘賱丿丞 亘賰賱 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴賲 賵毓丕丿丕鬲賴賲 賵毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 亘賴
賵賳賰卮賮 賲丕 賷丿賵乇 賮賷 毓賯賱賴 賲賳 禺賷丕賱 賵乇丐賶 賵賲賱丕丨馗丕鬲 賷乇賶 亘賴丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵丕賱賳丕爻
賷賰鬲亘 賴丕賲爻賳 毓賳 丕賱賳賮爻 賵鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賱卮乇 丕賱賲爻鬲鬲乇 賵乇丕亍 賲馗丕賴乇 丕賱賲孬丕賱賷丞 賵丕賱賵丿丕毓丞
賵毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 賷賳賯丿 丕賱兀丿亘丕亍 賵丕賱卮毓乇丕亍 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賷賳
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乇噩賱 睾乇賷亘 丕賱兀胤賵丕乇 賷賳夭賱 賲賳 爻賮賷賳丞 廿賱賶 亘賱丿丞 賳乇賵賷噩賷丞 氐睾賷乇丞
賲孬賷乇 賱賱丕賳鬲亘丕賴 賵丕賱乇賷亘丞 亘兀賮賰丕乇賴 賵丌乇丕丐賴 丕賱丨丕丿丞 丕賱睾賷乇 鬲賯賱賷丿賷丞
丨賰丕賷丕鬲賴 賵兀丨丕丿賷孬賴 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴 賲夭賷噩 賲購丨賷乇 亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱兀賰丕匕賷亘
禺賱丕賱 丕賱爻乇丿 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 兀賴賱 丕賱亘賱丿丞 亘賰賱 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴賲 賵毓丕丿丕鬲賴賲 賵毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 亘賴
賵賳賰卮賮 賲丕 賷丿賵乇 賮賷 毓賯賱賴 賲賳 禺賷丕賱 賵乇丐賶 賵賲賱丕丨馗丕鬲 賷乇賶 亘賴丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵丕賱賳丕爻
賷賰鬲亘 賴丕賲爻賳 毓賳 丕賱賳賮爻 賵鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賱卮乇 丕賱賲爻鬲鬲乇 賵乇丕亍 賲馗丕賴乇 丕賱賲孬丕賱賷丞 賵丕賱賵丿丕毓丞
賵毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 亘胤賱 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 賷賳賯丿 丕賱兀丿亘丕亍 賵丕賱卮毓乇丕亍 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賷賳
兀爻賱賵亘 賲賲賷夭 賮賷 丕賱丨賵丕乇 賵賱睾丞 卮丕毓乇賷丞 賮賷 賵氐賮 噩賲丕賱 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞
July 28, 2020
鈥淏ut what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe鈥︹€�
Johan Nilsen Nagel arrives in a small, coastal Norwegian town bearing a fur coat in summer, a yellow suit, and a violin case without a violin. He deliberately leaves out telegrams on his table that give the impression he is quite rich. He later claims they are false, but the reader is already suspicious that subterfuge and deliberate lying are part of whatever game he is playing.
Who is he, really? And what possible motivation does he have in being so odd? Why can鈥檛 he act like a normal person? What is his aim?
He professes that he has fallen head over heels in love with Dagny, despite the fact that she is engaged to an officer in the Navy. He is not dissuaded by her protests that he must desist. She is intrigued by him, even after she starts to unravel his lies. She has certainly never met anyone like him, and even though she knows he is an unreliable narrator of his own life, she can鈥檛 help but continue to think about him. He is messing with her head. Then, he abruptly starts chasing after a woman who would be considered an old maid; certainly, she is many years older than Nagel. This definitely makes me uneasy because I have already discovered that I can鈥檛 trust his character. I fear he will lift her up only to drop her unceremoniously after his attention wanders somewhere else.
Can he play the violin? What is that about?
He makes friends with a midget who is forced to do tricks for a few 酶re. Nagel has surreptitiously attempted to help several disadvantaged people in town, going to great, elaborate links to give them money without them knowing how this windfall found them, and the midget is no exception.
Did I mention that Nagel carries a vial of prussic acid around with him all the time? An insurance policy in case life becomes too overwhelming, a reassurance that he will never be trapped. I kept getting a Werther feel off this novel and wondering if our friend Nagel is heading towards a self-inflicted, dramatic ending.
The whole novel is very puzzling. The book was published in Norway in 1892, but was not published in English until 1971. The Farrar, Straus, and Giroux first edition that I read has a cover that reminds me of the Herman Hesse books published about the same time by the same publisher. I associate Hesse with the 1960s and 1970s, even though he was writing many decades before that. Trying to see this book through a 1970s lens doesn鈥檛 work, but also trying to place this novel in the 1890s is almost impossible. He was certainly forward thinking, especially in presenting psychology in fiction, and some would say he was writing the first modern novels. I lean more towards that he was an uncle of the modern novel. He certainly had influence on several generations of writers.
Like many of our historical figures, Knut Hamsun does not live up to the high ideals we would like our heroes or our influencers to be. He was a Nazi sympathizer during the war, and fearing that the British would invade Norway, he rooted rather publicly for the Germans to invade first. He was seen frequently in the company of high ranking Nazi officials, including Adolf Hitler. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he gave his award to Joseph Goebbels *bone rattling shudder*. During his trial after the war, he pleaded ignorance.
Ignorance?
Maybe anglophobia, or maybe his distaste for the lack of discipline he was seeing in the world. We can come up with half a dozen better reasons, but ignorance is not something I would ever accuse such a man as Hamsun of suffering from.
He is quite possibly Norway鈥檚 greatest novelist. I can only imagine the pain that Norwegian intellectuals feel to have such a negative association with such a great contributor to literature. We want our influencers to be beyond reproach, but rarely do they hold up to deep scrutiny. We are dismantling statues in the US, and I completely agree with taking down the Confederate 鈥渉eroes鈥� because most of those statues were put up for the wrong reason in the first place. They were erected in the 1960s as a response to the Civil Rights Movement. Now there is trending hashtag #cancelhamilton and mutters about removing him from the $10 because he owned slaves. To be more precise he didn鈥檛 own slaves, he married into the wealthy, slave owning family, the Schuylers. He did participate in the slave trade by buying and selling slaves for his in-laws. He certainly benefited from slavery. He is flawed as were most of the founding fathers. He is one of only three founding fathers who did not own slaves, but the musical Hamilton does inflate his abolitionist stance.
This review isn鈥檛 about Hamilton, but about Hamsun. I make the association between the two men simply because they have both been evaluated and revaluated through the lens of history and been found wanting.
I start to squirm a bit in my seat when I hear about the possibility of Hamilton being eradicated from our history. I鈥檝e always respected the fact that he came from nothing and made something of himself. There are statues to Knut Hamsun, of course. Should they be taken down because of his Nazi associations, or should they remain because of his contribution to literature? Do we judge people by their worst characteristics or by their best? Do we judge people only by their worst day? History should be studied for the people who got it right as well as the people who got it wrong. Trying to whitewash history is a dangerous game.
What a great point of discussion over a few pints on whether Hamsun鈥檚 literature has proven to be a greater contribution to the betterment of mankind than his association with the Nazis has been a detriment. In Mysteries, there are certainly no signs of Fascism or any of their guiding principles. Should Hamiton鈥檚 contributions to the formation of the United States be ignored? Do I have to unwatch and unenjoy Hamilton? If we take Hamilton down for his connection with slavery, where does it stop? Do we take down Jefferson as well, or how about the father of our country, George Washington? We certainly should be finding those historical people who exhibited principles more in line with our modern sensibilities, but we just can鈥檛 sidestep the contributions of the slave owners in the formation of our country. They are there at every step, warts and all. It is frustrating that such men did so little to end slavery. Think if Jefferson and his writing cronies had shown the proper moxie to end slavery with the writing of the Constitution in 1789?
This is such an odd book with progressive ideas. I would certainly hate to see it and Hamsun鈥檚 other best books ignored by readers because of his 鈥渋gnorance鈥� with the Nazies. I鈥檝e decided I will read Pan, Hunger, and Victoria, which along with Mysteries are considered his best books.
Can we venerate Hamsun as a novelist and condemn him as a Nazi?
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Johan Nilsen Nagel arrives in a small, coastal Norwegian town bearing a fur coat in summer, a yellow suit, and a violin case without a violin. He deliberately leaves out telegrams on his table that give the impression he is quite rich. He later claims they are false, but the reader is already suspicious that subterfuge and deliberate lying are part of whatever game he is playing.
Who is he, really? And what possible motivation does he have in being so odd? Why can鈥檛 he act like a normal person? What is his aim?
He professes that he has fallen head over heels in love with Dagny, despite the fact that she is engaged to an officer in the Navy. He is not dissuaded by her protests that he must desist. She is intrigued by him, even after she starts to unravel his lies. She has certainly never met anyone like him, and even though she knows he is an unreliable narrator of his own life, she can鈥檛 help but continue to think about him. He is messing with her head. Then, he abruptly starts chasing after a woman who would be considered an old maid; certainly, she is many years older than Nagel. This definitely makes me uneasy because I have already discovered that I can鈥檛 trust his character. I fear he will lift her up only to drop her unceremoniously after his attention wanders somewhere else.
Can he play the violin? What is that about?
He makes friends with a midget who is forced to do tricks for a few 酶re. Nagel has surreptitiously attempted to help several disadvantaged people in town, going to great, elaborate links to give them money without them knowing how this windfall found them, and the midget is no exception.
Did I mention that Nagel carries a vial of prussic acid around with him all the time? An insurance policy in case life becomes too overwhelming, a reassurance that he will never be trapped. I kept getting a Werther feel off this novel and wondering if our friend Nagel is heading towards a self-inflicted, dramatic ending.
The whole novel is very puzzling. The book was published in Norway in 1892, but was not published in English until 1971. The Farrar, Straus, and Giroux first edition that I read has a cover that reminds me of the Herman Hesse books published about the same time by the same publisher. I associate Hesse with the 1960s and 1970s, even though he was writing many decades before that. Trying to see this book through a 1970s lens doesn鈥檛 work, but also trying to place this novel in the 1890s is almost impossible. He was certainly forward thinking, especially in presenting psychology in fiction, and some would say he was writing the first modern novels. I lean more towards that he was an uncle of the modern novel. He certainly had influence on several generations of writers.
Like many of our historical figures, Knut Hamsun does not live up to the high ideals we would like our heroes or our influencers to be. He was a Nazi sympathizer during the war, and fearing that the British would invade Norway, he rooted rather publicly for the Germans to invade first. He was seen frequently in the company of high ranking Nazi officials, including Adolf Hitler. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he gave his award to Joseph Goebbels *bone rattling shudder*. During his trial after the war, he pleaded ignorance.
Ignorance?
Maybe anglophobia, or maybe his distaste for the lack of discipline he was seeing in the world. We can come up with half a dozen better reasons, but ignorance is not something I would ever accuse such a man as Hamsun of suffering from.
He is quite possibly Norway鈥檚 greatest novelist. I can only imagine the pain that Norwegian intellectuals feel to have such a negative association with such a great contributor to literature. We want our influencers to be beyond reproach, but rarely do they hold up to deep scrutiny. We are dismantling statues in the US, and I completely agree with taking down the Confederate 鈥渉eroes鈥� because most of those statues were put up for the wrong reason in the first place. They were erected in the 1960s as a response to the Civil Rights Movement. Now there is trending hashtag #cancelhamilton and mutters about removing him from the $10 because he owned slaves. To be more precise he didn鈥檛 own slaves, he married into the wealthy, slave owning family, the Schuylers. He did participate in the slave trade by buying and selling slaves for his in-laws. He certainly benefited from slavery. He is flawed as were most of the founding fathers. He is one of only three founding fathers who did not own slaves, but the musical Hamilton does inflate his abolitionist stance.
This review isn鈥檛 about Hamilton, but about Hamsun. I make the association between the two men simply because they have both been evaluated and revaluated through the lens of history and been found wanting.
I start to squirm a bit in my seat when I hear about the possibility of Hamilton being eradicated from our history. I鈥檝e always respected the fact that he came from nothing and made something of himself. There are statues to Knut Hamsun, of course. Should they be taken down because of his Nazi associations, or should they remain because of his contribution to literature? Do we judge people by their worst characteristics or by their best? Do we judge people only by their worst day? History should be studied for the people who got it right as well as the people who got it wrong. Trying to whitewash history is a dangerous game.
What a great point of discussion over a few pints on whether Hamsun鈥檚 literature has proven to be a greater contribution to the betterment of mankind than his association with the Nazis has been a detriment. In Mysteries, there are certainly no signs of Fascism or any of their guiding principles. Should Hamiton鈥檚 contributions to the formation of the United States be ignored? Do I have to unwatch and unenjoy Hamilton? If we take Hamilton down for his connection with slavery, where does it stop? Do we take down Jefferson as well, or how about the father of our country, George Washington? We certainly should be finding those historical people who exhibited principles more in line with our modern sensibilities, but we just can鈥檛 sidestep the contributions of the slave owners in the formation of our country. They are there at every step, warts and all. It is frustrating that such men did so little to end slavery. Think if Jefferson and his writing cronies had shown the proper moxie to end slavery with the writing of the Constitution in 1789?
This is such an odd book with progressive ideas. I would certainly hate to see it and Hamsun鈥檚 other best books ignored by readers because of his 鈥渋gnorance鈥� with the Nazies. I鈥檝e decided I will read Pan, Hunger, and Victoria, which along with Mysteries are considered his best books.
Can we venerate Hamsun as a novelist and condemn him as a Nazi?
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March 11, 2021
A stranger comes to town. His name is Johan Nilsen Nagel (aka Simonsen). This is Norway and it鈥檚 1890 or so. Nagel says he is an agronomist taking his summer vacation in the country. He alternately charms and appalls the townspeople. He meets the innkeeper; the doctor; the town invalid; the beautiful Dagny, who鈥檚 engaged to an absent naval man; a minion called the deputy, whom he proceeds to fight in defense of the invalid. He is constantly teetering between despair and something like ecstasy, or possibly mania.
He carries a vial of Prussic acid about and obsesses about a recent local suicide. He dislikes the British PM Gladstone, presumably because of his rectitude. And he takes great pains to undermine any good reputation he himself may have earned by way of compassionate acts. In short, he slanders himself. This despite anonymously buying a new coat for the invalid, and paying a destitute old woman an immense sum for a chair that he insists is an antique. What brilliant pages these are as he tries to convince the poor girl that she owns an estimable antique! The book is alternately harrowing and funny, bizarre and beguiling.
Naturally Nagel falls for the alluring Dagny. Hamsun like few writers I know has a knack for writing about love鈥檚 longing, pining depths. He addresses the topic here fulsomely and perfects it in his next novel, .
鈥溾€榊ou must be crazy!鈥� she said, shaking her head. And distressed and pale, with an icy glint in her blue eyes, she added, 鈥榊ou know I am engaged, you remember and assume that, and yet鈥斺€�
鈥溾€極f course, I know! Could I forget the face and that uniform? After all, he鈥檚 a handsome man, and it isn鈥檛 that I find any fault with him; and yet I could wish him dead and gone. What鈥檚 the use of saying to myself, as I鈥檝e done a hundred times: there you won鈥檛 get anywhere. Instead I try to avoid thinking about this impossibility, telling myself, Oh yes, I鈥檒l get somewhere all right, lots of things can happen, there鈥檚 still hope . . . . And there is hope, isn鈥檛 there?鈥欌€� (p. 140)
Well, this bit comes across as basely melodramatic, but his gift for the subject matter of pointless love is genuine. Now do some of Nagel鈥檚 monologues go on too long? For that reason alone I subtract one star.
He carries a vial of Prussic acid about and obsesses about a recent local suicide. He dislikes the British PM Gladstone, presumably because of his rectitude. And he takes great pains to undermine any good reputation he himself may have earned by way of compassionate acts. In short, he slanders himself. This despite anonymously buying a new coat for the invalid, and paying a destitute old woman an immense sum for a chair that he insists is an antique. What brilliant pages these are as he tries to convince the poor girl that she owns an estimable antique! The book is alternately harrowing and funny, bizarre and beguiling.
Naturally Nagel falls for the alluring Dagny. Hamsun like few writers I know has a knack for writing about love鈥檚 longing, pining depths. He addresses the topic here fulsomely and perfects it in his next novel, .
鈥溾€榊ou must be crazy!鈥� she said, shaking her head. And distressed and pale, with an icy glint in her blue eyes, she added, 鈥榊ou know I am engaged, you remember and assume that, and yet鈥斺€�
鈥溾€極f course, I know! Could I forget the face and that uniform? After all, he鈥檚 a handsome man, and it isn鈥檛 that I find any fault with him; and yet I could wish him dead and gone. What鈥檚 the use of saying to myself, as I鈥檝e done a hundred times: there you won鈥檛 get anywhere. Instead I try to avoid thinking about this impossibility, telling myself, Oh yes, I鈥檒l get somewhere all right, lots of things can happen, there鈥檚 still hope . . . . And there is hope, isn鈥檛 there?鈥欌€� (p. 140)
Well, this bit comes across as basely melodramatic, but his gift for the subject matter of pointless love is genuine. Now do some of Nagel鈥檚 monologues go on too long? For that reason alone I subtract one star.
March 13, 2018
Acknowledgments
Introduction & Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Translator's Note
--Mysteries
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Introduction & Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Translator's Note
--Mysteries
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
March 19, 2024
When I was a teenager my dad urged two novels on me 鈥� Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game and Knut Hamsun's Hunger 鈥� which I consider all-time favourites to this day. Hesse I loved immediately; I read everything of his I could find. But Hamsun took a little longer. Upon first reading Hunger I thought, 'Huh? That's it?' It's not that I didn't like it, but it perplexed me. Hesse 鈥� and most if not all of my parents' other recommendations (Marquez, Kundera, Eco, Grass) 鈥� had seemed so grand somehow, so exalted. But Hamsun was the opposite; his gaze was microscopic. And crucially, not once did he signpost any moral message or 'broader significance'. Hunger was so far from a novel of ideas it was baffling. What was it about? Why did it exist? Why did Dad revere it? But 20 or so years and several readings later I'm with Dad. Hamsun (the young Hamsun) was a genius. Hunger, Mysteries and Pan (his first three novels, in that order) are masterpieces, worthy of comparison with anything I've read. There are scenes in these books that have burnt themselves into me: in Hunger when the delirious narrator becomes paranoically obsessed with an old man in the park; in Mysteries when Nagel plays the violin at the town talent night; in Pan when Glahn shoots a character he loves unconditionally. Hamun's characters are alive. Thrillingly so. His secret? He doesn't fence them in, or use them to illustrate theses. Hunger is what Crime and Punishment could be if Dostoevsky let it grow wild. Mysteries is wilder. Less autobiographical, more imaginative, more broad-reaching. At times it's almost surreal. Sure, the character is virtually the same, but transplanted into this more fertile terrain he flourishes. It's mind-bending: the tricks he plays on himself and others, the tangle of motivations, the palpable sense of mystery that he, the reader and Hamsun all feel as the story unfolds. Add to this the almost incredible, sleek modernness of the prose (which reads just as well in both existing translations) and, for a book written in the 1890s, you have a minor miracle. In Europe when these books were published, they say, young people would queue for hours to buy them. Hamsun 鈥� who had travelled to America and seemed to have brought back its tough laconicism 鈥� was revered by most of those writers who would go on to invent European modernism. There simply wasn't anyone else like him. Flash forward to John Fante and Charles Bukowski, both of whom read Hunger and reiterated: even by then (40-50 years later) he was one-of-a-kind. Look, Camus almost did it with The Outsider, but again he didn't let his character free. Read Hunger and tell me it doesn't breathe. Compare it to almost anything and tell me if it seems dated. Mysteries, OK, maybe there are passages that have dated, but only because it's looser, shaggier. But that scene where Nagel plays the violin 鈥� God, it's brilliant! This guy in a loud suit who all through the novel has denied he has any musical talent even though he carries around a violin case (he even goes so far as to admit it's just for show, though he could be lying) suddenly gets up at this rinky-dink talent night and plays his heart out. The townsfolk are stupefied, but here's the catch: we still don't know if he's any good or not! His technique is bad, that much is clear, and yet even he, after all his modest denials, is forced to admit that he really did put some soul into it. I mean, is this not punk rock about 80 years before the fact? It gives me the shivers! And then the whole romantic tangle he gets himself into, so deep that even he doesn't seem to know which of these women he really wants, or if he wants any of them at all. And those scenes in the forest 鈥� revisited in Pan and hewn into something more recognisable, more lyrical 鈥� but here just raw and real and magical... Read Hunger, read Mysteries, read Pan. Re-read them. There's plenty of others, but I dunno, I've never made it more than a few pages into any of them. I didn't want to spoil it for myself. The twentieth century starts here.
(As to the Hamsun-haters, those who won't read him because 'he was a Fascist', wake up! Firstly, what has that got to do with his work anyway? This is imaginitive writing. It's about as close to apolitical as you can get, and I guarantee you will find no Nazism here. And secondly, being a Fascist is NOT something you're born into. Mysteries was written over 40 years before Hamsun threw his lot in with Hitler.)
(As to the Hamsun-haters, those who won't read him because 'he was a Fascist', wake up! Firstly, what has that got to do with his work anyway? This is imaginitive writing. It's about as close to apolitical as you can get, and I guarantee you will find no Nazism here. And secondly, being a Fascist is NOT something you're born into. Mysteries was written over 40 years before Hamsun threw his lot in with Hitler.)
November 12, 2020
乇賵丕賷丞 鬲睾賵氐 賮賷 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 丕賱賲毓賯丿丞 賵丕賱賲乇賰亘丞 賲賳 毓丿賾丞 卮禺氐賷丕鬲貙 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 兀賳 賷卮丿賾賳賷 賱賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 賱丌禺乇 氐賮丨丞
March 18, 2024
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丿賷 亘丿丕賷鬲賴丕 噩匕亘鬲賳賷 賵亘毓丿 賰丿賴 亘丿兀鬲 兀賮賯丿 丕賳噩匕丕亘賷 賱賷賴丕 賵賲乇鬲 賮賷賴丕 噩夭亍 胤賵賷賱 賲賲賱 賵賮賰乇鬲 賮毓賱丕 丕賳賷 丕爻賷亘賴丕 賱賰賳 賰丕賳 賮賷賴丕 卮卅 亘賷噩匕亘賳賷 丕賳賷 兀賰賲賱 貙 賰丕賳 賮賷賴丕 丕噩夭丕亍 亘鬲噩匕亘賳賷 貙 亘噩丕賳亘 卮禺氐賷丞 賳賷噩賱 丕賱賲乇亘賰丞 賵賰丕賳 毓賳丿賷 賮囟賵賱 丕毓乇賮 賴鬲賳鬲賴賷 毓賱賶 丕賷賴 責!
亘爻 丕賱賳氐 丕賱鬲丕賳賷 亘丿兀 賷禺鬲賱賮 丕賵 賯丿乇 賷乇噩毓 賷噩匕亘賳賷 賵丕賱賲賱賱 賯賱 貙 丕賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱賴爻鬲賷乇賷丞 賵丕賱賲囟胤乇亘丞 賮賷 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 馗賴乇鬲 亘卮賰賱 兀賰亘乇 賵丕爻鬲賮夭鬲賳賷 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 賰鬲賷乇 賱賴 賵丨賷乇鬲賳賷 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 貙 丨賷乇鬲賳賷 丿賵丕賮毓賴 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴 .
卮禺氐賷丞 賲乇亘賰丞 賲賰賳鬲卮 毓丕乇賮丞 賷氐毓亘 毓賱賷丕 賵賱丕 賱兀 !! 賴賵 卮禺氐賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞貙 亘賷賰丿亘 丕丨賷丕賳丕 亘丿賵賳 丕賷 丕爻亘丕亘 賱賰丿賴 賵丿賴 卮卅 賷禺賱賷賳賷 丕丨鬲賯乇賴 貙丕丨賷丕賳丕 賰丕賳 亘賷毓賲賱 賰丿賴 賰賳賵毓 賲賳 賱賮鬲 丕賱丕賳鬲亘丕賴 賵兀丨賷丕賳丕 夭賶 賲丕 丕毓鬲乇賮 賰賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱鬲賱丕毓亘 丕賱毓賯賱賷 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷 . 亘賷賯賵賱 丕賱丨丕噩賴 賵毓賰爻賴丕 賮亘鬲亘賯賶 賲卮 毓丕乇賮 鬲氐丿賯 丕賷 丨丕噩丞 賮賷賴賲. 亘爻 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賮賷 丕賵賯丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 賱賴 兀賮賰丕乇 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 鬲禺賱賷賰 鬲購毓噩亘 亘賷賴.
賰丕賳 賲乇亘賰 賱賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賱賶 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 禺氐賵氐丕賸 丿丕噩賳賷 賰賷賱丕賳丿 賲賰丕賳鬲卮 毓丕乇賮丞 鬲氐丿賯賴 賵賱丕 鬲賰丿亘賴 !! 貙 鬲毓噩亘 亘賷賴 賵賱丕 鬲賰乇賴賴 !! 貙鬲丨鬲乇賲賴 賵賱丕 鬲丨鬲賯乇賴 !!
" 兀賳丕 賱丕 兀賮賴賲賰 貙 兀丨賷丕賳丕 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲鬲丨丿孬 兀鬲爻丕亍賱 廿匕丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 毓丕賯賱丕賸 . 爻丕賲丨賳賷 貙 賱賰賳 賮賷 賰賱 賲乇丞 兀賱鬲賯賷賰 賷夭丿丕丿 卮毓賵乇賷 亘丕賱賰丿乇 賵丕賱丕乇鬲亘丕賰 . 賲賴賲丕 賰丕賳 賲賵囟賵毓 丨丿賷孬賰貙 兀噩丿 丕賳賰 鬲賮爻丿 丕鬲夭丕賳賷."
卮禺氐賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞貙 賴賵 睾乇賷亘 賲賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 亘爻 賲毓 丕賱賳氐 丕賱鬲丕賳賷 鬲夭丕賷丿鬲 賵禺氐賵氐丕 賮賷 鬲毓丕賲賱賴 賲毓 丿丕噩賳賷. 丿賴 賲賷賲賳毓卮 丕賳 賱賴 賲毓丕賲賱丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 夭賶 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 賲毓 丕賱賯夭賲 賵賲毓 賲丕乇鬲丕 . 賵胤乇賷賯丞 丨丿賷孬賴 賲毓 賳賮爻賴 賵賲毓 睾賷乇賴 兀睾賱亘賴丕 睾乇賷亘 賵亘毓囟賴丕 賲卮 賲賮賴賵賲.
" 賱賯丿 賵賮乇鬲 賱賰賲 噩賲賷毓丕賸 丿爻鬲丞 賲賳 賲賵囟賵毓丕鬲 賲賲鬲毓丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賱賱賲丨丕丿孬丞貙 賵賱丕 噩丿賵賶 賲賳 丕賱鬲賱賴賷丞 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲 丕賱乇鬲賷亘丞 ! 賱賯丿 丕禺鬲賱賯鬲 賱亘賮囟賷丨丞 鬲賱賵 丕賱兀禺乇賶 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賴丞 丕賱賲鬲賵丨卮丞 !"
乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷賴丕 丕噩夭丕亍 毓噩亘鬲賳賷 賵噩匕亘鬲賳賷 賵丕噩夭丕亍 鬲丕賳賷丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲賱丞 噩丿丕 賵丕噩夭丕亍 睾乇賷亘丞 .. 賵賰丕賳 賲賲賰賳 賷賰賵賳 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賷賴丕 兀毓賱賶 賲賳 賰丿賴 賱賵 賲賰丕賳卮 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賲賲賱 賲賳賴丕 亘丕賱賳爻亘丕賱賷 賰亘賷乇
佟佟 / 侑 / 佗贍佗伲
亘爻 丕賱賳氐 丕賱鬲丕賳賷 亘丿兀 賷禺鬲賱賮 丕賵 賯丿乇 賷乇噩毓 賷噩匕亘賳賷 賵丕賱賲賱賱 賯賱 貙 丕賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱賴爻鬲賷乇賷丞 賵丕賱賲囟胤乇亘丞 賮賷 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 馗賴乇鬲 亘卮賰賱 兀賰亘乇 賵丕爻鬲賮夭鬲賳賷 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 賰鬲賷乇 賱賴 賵丨賷乇鬲賳賷 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 貙 丨賷乇鬲賳賷 丿賵丕賮毓賴 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴 .
卮禺氐賷丞 賲乇亘賰丞 賲賰賳鬲卮 毓丕乇賮丞 賷氐毓亘 毓賱賷丕 賵賱丕 賱兀 !! 賴賵 卮禺氐賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞貙 亘賷賰丿亘 丕丨賷丕賳丕 亘丿賵賳 丕賷 丕爻亘丕亘 賱賰丿賴 賵丿賴 卮卅 賷禺賱賷賳賷 丕丨鬲賯乇賴 貙丕丨賷丕賳丕 賰丕賳 亘賷毓賲賱 賰丿賴 賰賳賵毓 賲賳 賱賮鬲 丕賱丕賳鬲亘丕賴 賵兀丨賷丕賳丕 夭賶 賲丕 丕毓鬲乇賮 賰賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱鬲賱丕毓亘 丕賱毓賯賱賷 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷 . 亘賷賯賵賱 丕賱丨丕噩賴 賵毓賰爻賴丕 賮亘鬲亘賯賶 賲卮 毓丕乇賮 鬲氐丿賯 丕賷 丨丕噩丞 賮賷賴賲. 亘爻 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賮賷 丕賵賯丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 賱賴 兀賮賰丕乇 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 鬲禺賱賷賰 鬲購毓噩亘 亘賷賴.
賰丕賳 賲乇亘賰 賱賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賱賶 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 禺氐賵氐丕賸 丿丕噩賳賷 賰賷賱丕賳丿 賲賰丕賳鬲卮 毓丕乇賮丞 鬲氐丿賯賴 賵賱丕 鬲賰丿亘賴 !! 貙 鬲毓噩亘 亘賷賴 賵賱丕 鬲賰乇賴賴 !! 貙鬲丨鬲乇賲賴 賵賱丕 鬲丨鬲賯乇賴 !!
" 兀賳丕 賱丕 兀賮賴賲賰 貙 兀丨賷丕賳丕 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲鬲丨丿孬 兀鬲爻丕亍賱 廿匕丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 毓丕賯賱丕賸 . 爻丕賲丨賳賷 貙 賱賰賳 賮賷 賰賱 賲乇丞 兀賱鬲賯賷賰 賷夭丿丕丿 卮毓賵乇賷 亘丕賱賰丿乇 賵丕賱丕乇鬲亘丕賰 . 賲賴賲丕 賰丕賳 賲賵囟賵毓 丨丿賷孬賰貙 兀噩丿 丕賳賰 鬲賮爻丿 丕鬲夭丕賳賷."
卮禺氐賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞貙 賴賵 睾乇賷亘 賲賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 亘爻 賲毓 丕賱賳氐 丕賱鬲丕賳賷 鬲夭丕賷丿鬲 賵禺氐賵氐丕 賮賷 鬲毓丕賲賱賴 賲毓 丿丕噩賳賷. 丿賴 賲賷賲賳毓卮 丕賳 賱賴 賲毓丕賲賱丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 夭賶 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 賲毓 丕賱賯夭賲 賵賲毓 賲丕乇鬲丕 . 賵胤乇賷賯丞 丨丿賷孬賴 賲毓 賳賮爻賴 賵賲毓 睾賷乇賴 兀睾賱亘賴丕 睾乇賷亘 賵亘毓囟賴丕 賲卮 賲賮賴賵賲.
" 賱賯丿 賵賮乇鬲 賱賰賲 噩賲賷毓丕賸 丿爻鬲丞 賲賳 賲賵囟賵毓丕鬲 賲賲鬲毓丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賱賱賲丨丕丿孬丞貙 賵賱丕 噩丿賵賶 賲賳 丕賱鬲賱賴賷丞 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲 丕賱乇鬲賷亘丞 ! 賱賯丿 丕禺鬲賱賯鬲 賱亘賮囟賷丨丞 鬲賱賵 丕賱兀禺乇賶 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賴丞 丕賱賲鬲賵丨卮丞 !"
乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷賴丕 丕噩夭丕亍 毓噩亘鬲賳賷 賵噩匕亘鬲賳賷 賵丕噩夭丕亍 鬲丕賳賷丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲賱丞 噩丿丕 賵丕噩夭丕亍 睾乇賷亘丞 .. 賵賰丕賳 賲賲賰賳 賷賰賵賳 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賷賴丕 兀毓賱賶 賲賳 賰丿賴 賱賵 賲賰丕賳卮 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賲賲賱 賲賳賴丕 亘丕賱賳爻亘丕賱賷 賰亘賷乇
佟佟 / 侑 / 佗贍佗伲
April 14, 2018
Mysterier = Mysteries, Knut Hamsun
Mysteries (Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 賴卮鬲賲 賲丕賴 丿爻丕賲亘乇 爻丕賱 2005 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴: 丕爻乇丕乇貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 爻毓蹖丿 爻毓蹖丿倬賵乇貙 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賲乇賵丕乇蹖丿 貙 1381貨 丿乇 355 氐貨 卮丕亘讴: 9645881110貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1385貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賳乇賵夭蹖 - 爻丿賴 19 賲
毓賳賵丕賳 丿賵: 乇丕夭賴丕貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 賯丕爻賲 氐賳毓賵蹖貙 賲卮賴丿貙 賳卮乇 賳蹖賲丕貙 1366貙 丿乇 319 氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇: 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賱 丌匕蹖賳貙 1383貨 丿乇 364 氐貨 卮丕亘讴: 9647703139貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 1386貨 趩賴丕乇賲 賵 倬賳噩賲 1388貨 卮丕亘讴: 9789647703130貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賳乇賵夭蹖 - 爻丿賴 19 賲
乇賲丕賳蹖 丕夭 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貙 乇賲丕賳鈥屬嗁堐屫� 賳乇賵跇蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 爻丕賱 1892 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 賲賳鬲卮乇 卮丿. 丕賳诏蹖夭賴鈥� 賴丕蹖 乇賮鬲丕乇 蹖賵賴丕賳 賳丕诏賱貙 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丕氐賱蹖 讴鬲丕亘貙 賲卮禺氐 賳蹖爻鬲. 丕賵 讴賴 丕夭 賴蹖趩 噩丕 賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 乇賵夭蹖 亘賴 卮賴乇 讴賵趩讴 亘蹖鈥屬嗀з呟� 賲蹖鈥屫必池� 賵 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 賲丿鬲蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 亘賴 丕蹖賮丕蹖 賳賯卮 賯丕丿乇 賲胤賱賯 賲蹖倬乇丿丕夭丿. 丿乇 倬丕蹖丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳蹖夭 趩蹖夭蹖 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丌睾丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥� 丕卮 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗃屬� 賵 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴贁 睾賲鈥� 丕賳诏蹖夭 噩丕匕亘賴鈥� 丕蹖 趩賳蹖賳 毓丕賱蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄘ簇�. 賳丕诏賱 讴賴 丕夭 夭賲丕賳 禺賵丿 倬蹖卮蹖 诏乇賮鬲賴貙 賴賲趩賵賳 囟丿 賯賴乇賲丕賳蹖 丿賱趩爻亘 賵 賲毓賲丕蹖蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖鈥屫必池� 賵 趩賵賳 賴賳乇賲賳丿蹖 讴賴 賵爻蹖賱賴贁 亘蹖丕賳 禺賵丿 乇丕 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 爻丕禺鬲賴貙 噩賱賵賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Mysteries (Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 賴卮鬲賲 賲丕賴 丿爻丕賲亘乇 爻丕賱 2005 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴: 丕爻乇丕乇貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 爻毓蹖丿 爻毓蹖丿倬賵乇貙 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賲乇賵丕乇蹖丿 貙 1381貨 丿乇 355 氐貨 卮丕亘讴: 9645881110貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1385貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賳乇賵夭蹖 - 爻丿賴 19 賲
毓賳賵丕賳 丿賵: 乇丕夭賴丕貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 賯丕爻賲 氐賳毓賵蹖貙 賲卮賴丿貙 賳卮乇 賳蹖賲丕貙 1366貙 丿乇 319 氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇: 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賱 丌匕蹖賳貙 1383貨 丿乇 364 氐貨 卮丕亘讴: 9647703139貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 1386貨 趩賴丕乇賲 賵 倬賳噩賲 1388貨 卮丕亘讴: 9789647703130貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 賳乇賵夭蹖 - 爻丿賴 19 賲
乇賲丕賳蹖 丕夭 讴賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳貙 乇賲丕賳鈥屬嗁堐屫� 賳乇賵跇蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 爻丕賱 1892 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 賲賳鬲卮乇 卮丿. 丕賳诏蹖夭賴鈥� 賴丕蹖 乇賮鬲丕乇 蹖賵賴丕賳 賳丕诏賱貙 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丕氐賱蹖 讴鬲丕亘貙 賲卮禺氐 賳蹖爻鬲. 丕賵 讴賴 丕夭 賴蹖趩 噩丕 賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 乇賵夭蹖 亘賴 卮賴乇 讴賵趩讴 亘蹖鈥屬嗀з呟� 賲蹖鈥屫必池� 賵 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 賲丿鬲蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 亘賴 丕蹖賮丕蹖 賳賯卮 賯丕丿乇 賲胤賱賯 賲蹖倬乇丿丕夭丿. 丿乇 倬丕蹖丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳蹖夭 趩蹖夭蹖 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丌睾丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥� 丕卮 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗃屬� 賵 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴贁 睾賲鈥� 丕賳诏蹖夭 噩丕匕亘賴鈥� 丕蹖 趩賳蹖賳 毓丕賱蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄘ簇�. 賳丕诏賱 讴賴 丕夭 夭賲丕賳 禺賵丿 倬蹖卮蹖 诏乇賮鬲賴貙 賴賲趩賵賳 囟丿 賯賴乇賲丕賳蹖 丿賱趩爻亘 賵 賲毓賲丕蹖蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖鈥屫必池� 賵 趩賵賳 賴賳乇賲賳丿蹖 讴賴 賵爻蹖賱賴贁 亘蹖丕賳 禺賵丿 乇丕 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 爻丕禺鬲賴貙 噩賱賵賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
May 18, 2025
That's a strange novel that leaves a bizarre impression at the end of the reading.
We follow Nagel, a whimsical character who plays several roles in this adventure, from the generous altruist to the most devious character. He is manipulative, but he is also playing at letting himself handle it. This character slips like an eel in our hands, elusive, always where we don't expect him, who, in the end, under his apparent confidence, is more like a simple manic-depressive. This Scandinavian novel made me think of the somewhat ethereal Nordic cinema of Bergman and Dreyer. Our character's philosophical questions reflect his incoherence more than a real, structured thought, drunken evening rants that say everything and its opposite, and his relationships with others sometimes seem calculated to collapse immediately afterward in a headlong flight. Desperate. Still, I liked getting lost in this novel, sometimes stumbling, like in a labyrinth of characters' words, like in the books of Henry Miller or James Joyce and Albert Camus, with a somewhat chaotic, tragic dimension. What has Nagel come to do in this village other than get lost there and satisfy a desire to become an artificially sad character? Only a few hours after turning the last page, I managed to measure its magnitude, as if the silence afterward was still novel.
We follow Nagel, a whimsical character who plays several roles in this adventure, from the generous altruist to the most devious character. He is manipulative, but he is also playing at letting himself handle it. This character slips like an eel in our hands, elusive, always where we don't expect him, who, in the end, under his apparent confidence, is more like a simple manic-depressive. This Scandinavian novel made me think of the somewhat ethereal Nordic cinema of Bergman and Dreyer. Our character's philosophical questions reflect his incoherence more than a real, structured thought, drunken evening rants that say everything and its opposite, and his relationships with others sometimes seem calculated to collapse immediately afterward in a headlong flight. Desperate. Still, I liked getting lost in this novel, sometimes stumbling, like in a labyrinth of characters' words, like in the books of Henry Miller or James Joyce and Albert Camus, with a somewhat chaotic, tragic dimension. What has Nagel come to do in this village other than get lost there and satisfy a desire to become an artificially sad character? Only a few hours after turning the last page, I managed to measure its magnitude, as if the silence afterward was still novel.
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賱賯丿 兀卮賮賯鬲 毓賱賶 賯賱亘賴 丕賱賲爻賰賷賳 賲毓匕亘丕賸 亘丕賱丨亘 丕賱匕賷 賷爻鬲丨賷賱 毓賱賷賴 兀賳 賷賳毓賲 亘賴..賰丕賳 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰賱 卮賷亍 賷鬲賵賯 廿賱賶 賯賱亘 賷卮丕乇賰賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賱賲丕 鬲毓匕乇 匕賱賰 貙 睾丿丕 賷丕卅爻丕賸 賲丨亘胤丕賸 賷鬲賱賵賶 賮賷 毓匕丕亘丕鬲賴 賵賴賵丕噩爻賴...
噩丕亍鬲 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 丨賷孬 鬲賯賵賱 賲賳 兀丨亘賴丕 "賴匕丕 賰丕賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賱賰賴 丿賵賲丕賸 "..
賵賱賰賳賴丕 胤乇賷賯 夭賱賯丞 .."
兀乇丕賴丕 賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賮賷囟 亘乇丕毓丞 賵匕賰丕亍賸 貙 兀噩賱 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賴賵 賱賲 賷賰賳 賷爻賱賰 爻賵賶 丕賱胤乇賯 丕賱夭賱賯丞 貙 賱丕 賷兀亘賴 賱毓賵丕賯亘賴丕 胤丕賱賲丕 兀賳賴 賷爻賷乇 賵賮賯丕賸 賱賯賳丕毓丕鬲賴 賵賲毓鬲賯丿丕鬲賴 貙 賰賲 賰丕賳 睾乇賷亘丕賸 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 賱賲 賷卮亘賴 兀丨丿丕賸 賵丨丕賵賱鬲 毓亘孬丕賸 兀毓乇賮 兀賶 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賰丕賳 ..賵賱賰賳 丿賵賳 噩丿賵賶...
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賱賯丿 兀卮賮賯鬲 毓賱賶 賯賱亘賴 丕賱賲爻賰賷賳 賲毓匕亘丕賸 亘丕賱丨亘 丕賱匕賷 賷爻鬲丨賷賱 毓賱賷賴 兀賳 賷賳毓賲 亘賴..賰丕賳 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰賱 卮賷亍 賷鬲賵賯 廿賱賶 賯賱亘 賷卮丕乇賰賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賱賲丕 鬲毓匕乇 匕賱賰 貙 睾丿丕 賷丕卅爻丕賸 賲丨亘胤丕賸 賷鬲賱賵賶 賮賷 毓匕丕亘丕鬲賴 賵賴賵丕噩爻賴...
噩丕亍鬲 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 丨賷孬 鬲賯賵賱 賲賳 兀丨亘賴丕 "賴匕丕 賰丕賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賱賰賴 丿賵賲丕賸 "..
賵賱賰賳賴丕 胤乇賷賯 夭賱賯丞 .."
兀乇丕賴丕 賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賮賷囟 亘乇丕毓丞 賵匕賰丕亍賸 貙 兀噩賱 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賴賵 賱賲 賷賰賳 賷爻賱賰 爻賵賶 丕賱胤乇賯 丕賱夭賱賯丞 貙 賱丕 賷兀亘賴 賱毓賵丕賯亘賴丕 胤丕賱賲丕 兀賳賴 賷爻賷乇 賵賮賯丕賸 賱賯賳丕毓丕鬲賴 賵賲毓鬲賯丿丕鬲賴 貙 賰賲 賰丕賳 睾乇賷亘丕賸 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 賱賲 賷卮亘賴 兀丨丿丕賸 賵丨丕賵賱鬲 毓亘孬丕賸 兀毓乇賮 兀賶 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賰丕賳 ..賵賱賰賳 丿賵賳 噩丿賵賶...
September 16, 2023
This was bizarre. A stranger named Johan Nagal comes to a small Norwegian coastal village with a seemingly infinite supply of money and anecdotes as well as a significant number of mysteries which, along with his mannerisms and ideas, bamboozle both the reader and the inhabitants.
I actually loved this. At first I thought it was a (very early) detective novel as Nagal seems fascinated by the recent murder (or was it suicide) of a man who appears to have been in love with a young woman called Dagny Kielland. He questions the people of the village about it, specifically a short, disabled man referred to by everyone as the Midget. As the novel proceeds, Nagal demonstrates that he has brilliant insights into the human psyche, can psychologically manipulate people with ease, and even admits to his games when he's caught out, claiming that he is lying but that his confessions should also be taken into account. I genuinely belived a twist was coming which would reveal his clever plan, his subtle investigation into these village people and the recently deceased man.
But... that never comes. Instead, we are left with a deranged man, a lunatic, who claims to have fallen madly in love with Dagny but also pursues the spinster Martha (asking her to marry him). He tells tales, and weaves stories, and provides anecdotes that marvel and bemuse his listeners. Some of his stories are bizarre and monstrous, ghost stories and drug fueled memories of hallucinations (which reminded me of Hesse). He is pleasant to people one minute, then ranting about their dishonesty and furtive motives the next. The man is all over the place, a delusional maniac but one of immense and subtle intelligence. I think I adored him. At first the ending felt flat, a disappointing nothing on the shoulders of so much potential. An unfinished thought. But then I was relieved, glad that Hamsun didn't give us the obvious and instead chose to leave his audience as perplexed as the people in the village.
This one had me thinking, churning it all over in my mind. What was Hamsun getting at? Why build things up like this only to knock them down? What was he attacking? What was he implying? The book's title is apt and the whole thing was a curiosity that fascinated me. I especially enjoyed his feverish rants (and the insights which are clearly Hamsun's in the mouth of Nagal), regarding socialism and literature, in particular when he criticised Tolstoy (a man who, amazingly, was still alive at the time). That Hamsun wrote this in 1892 only adds to its stature. It isn't perfect but this one will stay with me a while.
I actually loved this. At first I thought it was a (very early) detective novel as Nagal seems fascinated by the recent murder (or was it suicide) of a man who appears to have been in love with a young woman called Dagny Kielland. He questions the people of the village about it, specifically a short, disabled man referred to by everyone as the Midget. As the novel proceeds, Nagal demonstrates that he has brilliant insights into the human psyche, can psychologically manipulate people with ease, and even admits to his games when he's caught out, claiming that he is lying but that his confessions should also be taken into account. I genuinely belived a twist was coming which would reveal his clever plan, his subtle investigation into these village people and the recently deceased man.
But... that never comes. Instead, we are left with a deranged man, a lunatic, who claims to have fallen madly in love with Dagny but also pursues the spinster Martha (asking her to marry him). He tells tales, and weaves stories, and provides anecdotes that marvel and bemuse his listeners. Some of his stories are bizarre and monstrous, ghost stories and drug fueled memories of hallucinations (which reminded me of Hesse). He is pleasant to people one minute, then ranting about their dishonesty and furtive motives the next. The man is all over the place, a delusional maniac but one of immense and subtle intelligence. I think I adored him. At first the ending felt flat, a disappointing nothing on the shoulders of so much potential. An unfinished thought. But then I was relieved, glad that Hamsun didn't give us the obvious and instead chose to leave his audience as perplexed as the people in the village.
This one had me thinking, churning it all over in my mind. What was Hamsun getting at? Why build things up like this only to knock them down? What was he attacking? What was he implying? The book's title is apt and the whole thing was a curiosity that fascinated me. I especially enjoyed his feverish rants (and the insights which are clearly Hamsun's in the mouth of Nagal), regarding socialism and literature, in particular when he criticised Tolstoy (a man who, amazingly, was still alive at the time). That Hamsun wrote this in 1892 only adds to its stature. It isn't perfect but this one will stay with me a while.
February 13, 2009
The only mystery here is why I read all 330 pages of this nonsense.
May 9, 2016
賰丕賳鬲 賯乇丕亍丞 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱爻毓丕丿丕鬲 丕賱賲丐噩賱丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷貙 賱賲 兀鬲賵賯毓 兀賳 鬲鬲乇噩賲 賮賷 賵賯鬲 賯乇賷亘貙 噩夭賷賱 丕賱卮賰乇 賱賱兀爻鬲丕匕 听賵賱賱賲鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞 貙 賵賱丕 兀賳爻賶 賮囟賱 丿丕乇 賲爻賰賷賱賷丕賳賷 亘丕氐丿丕乇丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賲賳鬲賯丕丞 亘毓賳丕賷丞.
賷賵賴丕賳 賳賷噩賱 賲賳 兀睾乇亘 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賯乇兀鬲賴丕貙 賳丕賯賲 毓賱賶 丕賱賲孬丕賱賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賯賵丕賱亘 丕賱噩丕賴夭丞 賵賲毓賴賲 賯亘賷賱丞 丕賱毓馗賲丕亍 賵丕賱毓亘丕賯乇丞 毓賳 亘賰乇丞 兀亘賷賴賲貙 鬲鬲賯賱亘 兀丨賵丕賱賴 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 毓亘乇 乇賵丕賷丞 兀爻乇丕乇 亘胤乇賷賯丞 睾丕賲囟丞貙 賷賲丕乇爻 丕賱爻賯賵胤 丕賱丨乇 亘禺賮丞 賲賱丕卅賰賷丞 鬲孬賷乇 丕賱卮賰賵賰貙 鬲鬲卮賵賴 賲賱丕賲丨賴 賵鬲鬲亘毓孬乇 亘賮毓賱 丕賱囟睾胤 丕賱丌鬲賷 賲賳 囟亘丕亘賷丞 毓賯賱賴 丕賱亘丕胤賳貙 賷鬲丌賱賮 賲毓 丕賱氐禺賵乇 賵丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賮賷 丕賱睾丕亘丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇貙 匕賰乇賳賷 亘鬲賲乇丿 丕賱賲乇丕賴賯 賴賵賱丿賳 賰賵賱賮賷賱丿 賵卮丕毓乇 丕賱賳賯丕亍 丌乇孬乇 乇丕賲亘賵.
賳賯丿 賱丕匕毓 賵噩賴賴 賴丕賲爻賵賳 毓亘乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱毓丿丞 賰鬲丕亘 匕賰乇賴賲 亘丕賱丕爻賲 兀賵 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱兀丿亘賷 丕賱賵毓馗賷 賵丕賱賲鬲賰賱賮貙 丕賲鬲丿丨 孬乇丕亍 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕賱卮乇賯賷丞 亘丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱賱丕賲丨丿賵丿 賰賲丕 賮賷 賯氐氐 兀賱賮 賱賷賱丞 賵賱賷賱丞貙 賵賷乇噩毓 匕賱賰 賱賲毓丕賷卮鬲賴賲 丕賱賷賵賲賷丞 賱賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱賲卮亘毓 亘丿賮亍 丕賱卮賲爻 賵丕賲鬲丿丕丿 丕賱氐丨丕乇賷貙 賯丕乇賳賴丕 亘丨賰丕賷丕鬲 兀賴賱 丕賱卮賲丕賱 丕賱賲乇鬲亘胤丞 亘丨丿賵丿 丕賱卮鬲丕亍 賵兀賰賵丕禺賴賲 丕賱禺卮亘賷丞. 賰丕賳 亘胤賱賴 賳賷噩賱 賷鬲賯賲氐 乇賵丨 卮賴乇夭丕丿 賵賷孬乇孬乇 亘丨賰丕賷丕鬲 爻丕丨乇丞 丨鬲賶 賷賰爻亘 兀賵 賷卮鬲鬲 丕賳鬲亘丕賴 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 - 丕賱賯乇丕亍 囟賲賳賴賲 胤亘毓丕賸 - 賵賰丕賳 賷賳噩丨 賮賷 匕賱賰 丿丕卅賲丕賸.
賱爻鬲 囟賱賷毓丞 亘丕賱兀爻丕賱賷亘 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賱賰賳 兀爻乇丕乇 賰鬲亘鬲 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賲毓賯丿丞 賵賲丨乇囟丞 賱賱賯乇丕亍丞 丨鬲賶 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞貙 毓賱賶 匕賰乇 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 賳賵毓丕賸 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賲丕鬲 丕賱亘丕乇丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲睾鬲丕賱 氐亘乇 丕賱賯丕乇賶亍 ! 賲賳 賷卮丕乇賰賳賷 丕賳胤亘丕毓賴 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賷丕 兀氐丿賯丕亍 賵賰賷賮 賰丕賳 賮賴賲賴 賱賴丕 兀賰賵賳 賱賴 賲賳 丕賱卮丕賰乇賷賳 ^^
鬲賳亘賷賴 : 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 賲賲丿賵丨 賰鬲亘 賮賷 賲賯丿賲丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賳 賴丕賲爻賵賳 兀爻鬲禺丿賲 賲胤乇賯丞 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞貙 賱匕丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賱毓囟賱丕鬲 賯乇丕卅賷丞 賲乇賳丞 鬲爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘噩賲丕賱賷丕鬲 丕賱兀丿亘貙 兀氐丨丕亘 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱孬賲賷賳 賱丿賷賰賲 丨乇賷丞 丕賳賮丕賯賴 賮賷賲丕 賷乇賵賯賰賲 賲賳 胤賷亘丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱兀禺乇賶 :)
賴賳丕 亘毓囟 丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 賱賱鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賷賵賴丕賳 賳賷噩賱 :
- 賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲毓賵賲 毓丕賱賷丕賸 賴賳丕賰 亘賷賳 丕賱賰賵丕賰亘貙 賵兀賳鬲 鬲卮毓乇 亘兀胤乇丕賮 丕賱賲匕賳亘丕鬲 鬲賲爻 噩亘賴鬲賰 責 兀賷丞 亘賯毓丞 亘丕賱睾丞 丕賱氐睾乇 賴賷 丕賱兀乇囟貙 賵賰賲 賴賲 鬲丕賮賴賵賳 爻賰丕賳賴丕 !
- 賯丿 鬲賲賱賾 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 賲賳 賲孬賯賮 賯亘賷丨 亘爻乇毓丞 兀賰亘乇 賲賳 賲睾賮賱 賵爻賷賲. 賱賵 賰丕賳 賳賷噩賱 賮鬲丕丞 氐睾賷乇丞 賵賱丿賷賴丕 丕賱禺賷丕乇貙 賮賯丿 賷禺鬲丕乇 丕賱賵爻賷賲 丿賵賳 鬲乇丿丿貙 賵賱鬲兀禺匕 丕賱睾乇亘丕賳 丌乇丕亍 丕賱乇噩賱 亘丕賱爻賷丕爻丞 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷丞 賵賮賱爻賮丞 賳賷鬲卮賴.
- 兀賳丕 賮賷賱爻賵賮 賱賲 賷鬲毓賱賲 兀亘丿丕賸 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇.
- 賱賵 賰丕賳 鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷 卮丕亘丕賸 賷賯丕賵賲 丕賱睾賵丕賷丞 兀賵 賱賵 賰丕賳 賱丿賷賴 賲毓乇賰丞 賷賯丕鬲賱 賮賷賴丕 賵賷丨丕賵賱 兀賳 賷賰爻亘賴丕 賲亘卮乇丕賸 亘丕賱毓賮丞 賵丕賱毓賷卮 丕賱胤丕賴乇貙 賱賯丿 丕賰鬲賮賷鬲 賲賳 鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷. 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賴賵 賷賮毓賱 賲丕 賮毓賱賴 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱毓噩丕卅夭 賯亘賱賴貙 賵賲丕 爻賷賵丕氐賱 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賮毓賱賴 亘毓丿 乇丨賷賱賴. 丕賱兀賲乇 亘賴匕賴 丕賱亘爻丕胤丞.
- 卮毓乇丕亍 ! 兀賵賴 賳毓賲 賷賯丕賱 兀賳賴賲 鬲睾賱睾賱賵丕 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯 丕賱賯賱亘 丕賱亘卮乇賷. 賲賳 賰丕賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賲鬲睾胤乇爻賵賳 賲賲賳 賱丿賷賴賲 丕賱丿賴丕亍 丕賱賰丕賮賷 賰賷 賷丨乇夭賵丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賯丿乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲兀孬賷乇 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱賲毓丕氐乇丞 責 賱賯丿 賰丕賳賵丕 胤賮丨丕賸 噩賱丿賷丕賸 賵噩乇亘丕賸 毓賱賶 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 亘孬賵乇丕賸 賲鬲賯賷丨丞 賷噩亘 賲乇丕賯亘鬲賴丕 亘丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇 賵鬲毓賴丿賴丕 亘丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 賱卅賱丕 鬲賳賮噩乇.
賷賵賴丕賳 賳賷噩賱 賲賳 兀睾乇亘 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賯乇兀鬲賴丕貙 賳丕賯賲 毓賱賶 丕賱賲孬丕賱賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賯賵丕賱亘 丕賱噩丕賴夭丞 賵賲毓賴賲 賯亘賷賱丞 丕賱毓馗賲丕亍 賵丕賱毓亘丕賯乇丞 毓賳 亘賰乇丞 兀亘賷賴賲貙 鬲鬲賯賱亘 兀丨賵丕賱賴 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 毓亘乇 乇賵丕賷丞 兀爻乇丕乇 亘胤乇賷賯丞 睾丕賲囟丞貙 賷賲丕乇爻 丕賱爻賯賵胤 丕賱丨乇 亘禺賮丞 賲賱丕卅賰賷丞 鬲孬賷乇 丕賱卮賰賵賰貙 鬲鬲卮賵賴 賲賱丕賲丨賴 賵鬲鬲亘毓孬乇 亘賮毓賱 丕賱囟睾胤 丕賱丌鬲賷 賲賳 囟亘丕亘賷丞 毓賯賱賴 丕賱亘丕胤賳貙 賷鬲丌賱賮 賲毓 丕賱氐禺賵乇 賵丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 賮賷 丕賱睾丕亘丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇貙 匕賰乇賳賷 亘鬲賲乇丿 丕賱賲乇丕賴賯 賴賵賱丿賳 賰賵賱賮賷賱丿 賵卮丕毓乇 丕賱賳賯丕亍 丌乇孬乇 乇丕賲亘賵.
賳賯丿 賱丕匕毓 賵噩賴賴 賴丕賲爻賵賳 毓亘乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱毓丿丞 賰鬲丕亘 匕賰乇賴賲 亘丕賱丕爻賲 兀賵 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱兀丿亘賷 丕賱賵毓馗賷 賵丕賱賲鬲賰賱賮貙 丕賲鬲丿丨 孬乇丕亍 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕賱卮乇賯賷丞 亘丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱賱丕賲丨丿賵丿 賰賲丕 賮賷 賯氐氐 兀賱賮 賱賷賱丞 賵賱賷賱丞貙 賵賷乇噩毓 匕賱賰 賱賲毓丕賷卮鬲賴賲 丕賱賷賵賲賷丞 賱賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱賲卮亘毓 亘丿賮亍 丕賱卮賲爻 賵丕賲鬲丿丕丿 丕賱氐丨丕乇賷貙 賯丕乇賳賴丕 亘丨賰丕賷丕鬲 兀賴賱 丕賱卮賲丕賱 丕賱賲乇鬲亘胤丞 亘丨丿賵丿 丕賱卮鬲丕亍 賵兀賰賵丕禺賴賲 丕賱禺卮亘賷丞. 賰丕賳 亘胤賱賴 賳賷噩賱 賷鬲賯賲氐 乇賵丨 卮賴乇夭丕丿 賵賷孬乇孬乇 亘丨賰丕賷丕鬲 爻丕丨乇丞 丨鬲賶 賷賰爻亘 兀賵 賷卮鬲鬲 丕賳鬲亘丕賴 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 - 丕賱賯乇丕亍 囟賲賳賴賲 胤亘毓丕賸 - 賵賰丕賳 賷賳噩丨 賮賷 匕賱賰 丿丕卅賲丕賸.
賱爻鬲 囟賱賷毓丞 亘丕賱兀爻丕賱賷亘 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵賱賰賳 兀爻乇丕乇 賰鬲亘鬲 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賲毓賯丿丞 賵賲丨乇囟丞 賱賱賯乇丕亍丞 丨鬲賶 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞貙 毓賱賶 匕賰乇 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 賳賵毓丕賸 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賲丕鬲 丕賱亘丕乇丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲睾鬲丕賱 氐亘乇 丕賱賯丕乇賶亍 ! 賲賳 賷卮丕乇賰賳賷 丕賳胤亘丕毓賴 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賷丕 兀氐丿賯丕亍 賵賰賷賮 賰丕賳 賮賴賲賴 賱賴丕 兀賰賵賳 賱賴 賲賳 丕賱卮丕賰乇賷賳 ^^
鬲賳亘賷賴 : 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 賲賲丿賵丨 賰鬲亘 賮賷 賲賯丿賲丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賳 賴丕賲爻賵賳 兀爻鬲禺丿賲 賲胤乇賯丞 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞貙 賱匕丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賱毓囟賱丕鬲 賯乇丕卅賷丞 賲乇賳丞 鬲爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘噩賲丕賱賷丕鬲 丕賱兀丿亘貙 兀氐丨丕亘 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱孬賲賷賳 賱丿賷賰賲 丨乇賷丞 丕賳賮丕賯賴 賮賷賲丕 賷乇賵賯賰賲 賲賳 胤賷亘丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱兀禺乇賶 :)
賴賳丕 亘毓囟 丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 賱賱鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賷賵賴丕賳 賳賷噩賱 :
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- 賯丿 鬲賲賱賾 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 賲賳 賲孬賯賮 賯亘賷丨 亘爻乇毓丞 兀賰亘乇 賲賳 賲睾賮賱 賵爻賷賲. 賱賵 賰丕賳 賳賷噩賱 賮鬲丕丞 氐睾賷乇丞 賵賱丿賷賴丕 丕賱禺賷丕乇貙 賮賯丿 賷禺鬲丕乇 丕賱賵爻賷賲 丿賵賳 鬲乇丿丿貙 賵賱鬲兀禺匕 丕賱睾乇亘丕賳 丌乇丕亍 丕賱乇噩賱 亘丕賱爻賷丕爻丞 丕賱賳乇賵賷噩賷丞 賵賮賱爻賮丞 賳賷鬲卮賴.
- 兀賳丕 賮賷賱爻賵賮 賱賲 賷鬲毓賱賲 兀亘丿丕賸 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇.
- 賱賵 賰丕賳 鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷 卮丕亘丕賸 賷賯丕賵賲 丕賱睾賵丕賷丞 兀賵 賱賵 賰丕賳 賱丿賷賴 賲毓乇賰丞 賷賯丕鬲賱 賮賷賴丕 賵賷丨丕賵賱 兀賳 賷賰爻亘賴丕 賲亘卮乇丕賸 亘丕賱毓賮丞 賵丕賱毓賷卮 丕賱胤丕賴乇貙 賱賯丿 丕賰鬲賮賷鬲 賲賳 鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷. 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賴賵 賷賮毓賱 賲丕 賮毓賱賴 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱毓噩丕卅夭 賯亘賱賴貙 賵賲丕 爻賷賵丕氐賱 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賮毓賱賴 亘毓丿 乇丨賷賱賴. 丕賱兀賲乇 亘賴匕賴 丕賱亘爻丕胤丞.
- 卮毓乇丕亍 ! 兀賵賴 賳毓賲 賷賯丕賱 兀賳賴賲 鬲睾賱睾賱賵丕 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯 丕賱賯賱亘 丕賱亘卮乇賷. 賲賳 賰丕賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賲鬲睾胤乇爻賵賳 賲賲賳 賱丿賷賴賲 丕賱丿賴丕亍 丕賱賰丕賮賷 賰賷 賷丨乇夭賵丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賯丿乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲兀孬賷乇 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱賲毓丕氐乇丞 責 賱賯丿 賰丕賳賵丕 胤賮丨丕賸 噩賱丿賷丕賸 賵噩乇亘丕賸 毓賱賶 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 亘孬賵乇丕賸 賲鬲賯賷丨丞 賷噩亘 賲乇丕賯亘鬲賴丕 亘丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇 賵鬲毓賴丿賴丕 亘丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 賱卅賱丕 鬲賳賮噩乇.
August 11, 2021
Una novela muy moderna a pesar de haber sido escrita en 1892, apenas dos a帽os despu茅s de , la primer novela de Knut Hamsun; y ac谩 al igual que en Hambre, la tensi贸n de la novela tambi茅n se centra principalmente en el car谩cter del protagonista m谩s que en la trama.
La historia comienza cuando Nagel, un misterioso personaje del que nada se sabe sobre su pasado, arriba sin raz贸n aparente a un peque帽o poblado noruego y con algunos actos, acapara enseguida la atenci贸n del pueblo.
Nagel es un personaje con el que simpatizamos r谩pidamente dado su carisma y una sensibilidad especial que tiene para conectar con ciertas problem谩ticas de algunos lugare帽os, pero con el correr de las p谩ginas se vuelve cada vez m谩s oscuro, contradictorio, provocador, y comienzan a aparecer谩n en 茅l actos neur贸ticos que alteran el orden del lugar y que desconciertan a uno como lector.
Me gusta la sencillez con la que escribe Hamsun, disfruto sobre todo de la enorme capacidad que tiene para caracterizar psicol贸gicamente a sus personajes, algo que me recuerda a Dostoyevski, pero en esta novela sent铆 la ausencia de una trama que la sostenga, con lo cual la parte media de la historia se desinfla bastante, y para colmo una vez finalizada todav铆a me quedan mas dudas que certezas sobre varios puntos, as铆 que mi calificaci贸n es: 3,5
La historia comienza cuando Nagel, un misterioso personaje del que nada se sabe sobre su pasado, arriba sin raz贸n aparente a un peque帽o poblado noruego y con algunos actos, acapara enseguida la atenci贸n del pueblo.
Nagel es un personaje con el que simpatizamos r谩pidamente dado su carisma y una sensibilidad especial que tiene para conectar con ciertas problem谩ticas de algunos lugare帽os, pero con el correr de las p谩ginas se vuelve cada vez m谩s oscuro, contradictorio, provocador, y comienzan a aparecer谩n en 茅l actos neur贸ticos que alteran el orden del lugar y que desconciertan a uno como lector.
Me gusta la sencillez con la que escribe Hamsun, disfruto sobre todo de la enorme capacidad que tiene para caracterizar psicol贸gicamente a sus personajes, algo que me recuerda a Dostoyevski, pero en esta novela sent铆 la ausencia de una trama que la sostenga, con lo cual la parte media de la historia se desinfla bastante, y para colmo una vez finalizada todav铆a me quedan mas dudas que certezas sobre varios puntos, as铆 que mi calificaci贸n es: 3,5
August 22, 2016
"The Hamsun Centre" - Presteid - Hamar酶y - Noruega (Arq. Steven Holl)
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Nos 煤ltimos tempos li quatro obras fundamentais do escritor noruegu锚s Knut Hamsun (1859-1939), laureado com o Pr茅mio Nobel da Literatura em 1920, 鈥淔辞尘别鈥� (1890), 鈥淢颈蝉迟茅谤颈辞蝉鈥� (1892), 鈥淧补苍鈥� (1894) e 鈥淰颈肠迟辞谤颈补鈥� (1898), todas publicadas pela editora 鈥淐avalo de Ferro鈥�.
鈥淢颈蝉迟茅谤颈辞蝉鈥� 茅 para mim o melhor dos referenciados quatro romances 鈥� sem a crueza err谩tica de um jovem escritor que deambula por Kristiania (actual Oslo), 鈥渁companhado鈥� pelos seus pesadelos e pelos seus sonhos em 鈥淔辞尘别鈥� ou as rom芒nticas narrativas de 鈥淧补苍鈥� e 鈥淰颈肠迟辞谤颈补鈥�, de amores e desamores, envoltos em comportamentos obsessivos e tr谩gicos, em cen谩rios deslumbrantes da beleza natural n贸rdica 鈥� de Knut Hamsun.
John Nilsen Nagel desembarca numa pequena cidade costeira, um desconhecido de fato amarelo, de apar锚ncia e comportamento exc锚ntrico, impulsivo nos actos e nas decis玫es, que vai transformando a quietude das pessoas, num conjunto de atitudes receosas e incompreens铆veis.
Nesse comportamento controverso e extravagante Nagel torna-se amigo de Grogaard, o 鈥渁n茫o鈥�, uma personagem renegada e grotesca, num relacionamento amb铆guo fruto da histeria e das crises de depress茫o, e apaixona-se pela comprometida Dagny Kielland, numa rela莽茫o complexa de desencontros amorosos ou num capricho inexplic谩vel de verdades e mentiras.
Nagel 茅 o centro desta narrativa 鈥渕isteriosa鈥�, manipulador e hip贸crita, louco sonhador mas, simultaneamente, possuidor de um charme e uma sinceridade atroz, que se revela muitas vezes na sua magnanimidade e nobreza de esp铆rito 鈥� 鈥溾€� a vida 茅 uma luta contra os monstros que se escondem nos recantos do cora莽茫o e do c茅rebro鈥︹€� (P谩g. 42).
Knut Hamsun descreve maravilhosamente os cen谩rios envolventes da narrativa, a amplitude do mar e a tranquilidade da floresta, mas revela pouco sobre a consci锚ncia profunda das personagens, uma tarefa que o leitor vai ter que 鈥渁ssociar鈥� e 鈥渁grupar鈥�.
Numa leitura compulsiva, 鈥淢颈蝉迟茅谤颈辞蝉鈥� 茅 um livro fascinante, misterioso e negro鈥�
February 28, 2018
In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began happening in a small Norwegian coastal town. A stranger by the name of Nagel appeared, a singular character who shook the town by his eccentric behavior and then vanished suddenly as he had come.
This is how Hamsun introduces us to Nagel, his yellow suit and his world of mysteries. I finished this book an hour ago. I spent my night reading this breathtaking novel. And for the past one hour I have been sitting in front of my laptop, lost in thoughts; attempting to write a review. I admit, I have failed.
All I would say is: READ IT. You will know why my brain froze. Mysteries is haunting, enigmatic, existential, and one of the best novels I have come across. Highly recommended.
This is how Hamsun introduces us to Nagel, his yellow suit and his world of mysteries. I finished this book an hour ago. I spent my night reading this breathtaking novel. And for the past one hour I have been sitting in front of my laptop, lost in thoughts; attempting to write a review. I admit, I have failed.
All I would say is: READ IT. You will know why my brain froze. Mysteries is haunting, enigmatic, existential, and one of the best novels I have come across. Highly recommended.
November 4, 2008
Though not a perfect book, Hamsun has again created a unique character, a unique atmosphere, and something resembling Musil's "man without qualities" in the person of Nagel. Mysteries, in some ways, supercedes "Hunger" in scope and depth of writing, but is much more disorganized and not as consistent in tone. Both Hunger and Mysteries simmered and seethed with nervousness, desperation, exhausted illumination, and fascinating strangeness, but where Hunger flowed essentially like four movements of a symphony, Mysteries weaves through high and low points of artistic success. Still, I have to say I was moved many times and found myself totally immersed in Nagel's dark subconcious wanderings and flights of fancy. The chapter where he recounts the story of his night following Jack-O-Lantern through the woods was especially striking.
March 16, 2021
鈥淏ut what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe鈥︹€�
鈥淏ut now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.鈥�
鈥淚 can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.鈥�
鈥淏ut now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.鈥�
鈥淚 can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.鈥�
August 9, 2016
G眉venilmez bir ba艧 karakter mi ar谋yorsunuz? Al谋n size Johan Nagel.
Kitap boyu Nagel'in tutars谋zl谋klar谋 pe艧inde s眉r眉klenip gidiyorsunuz. Kitab谋 莽ekici yapan da bu. Nagel'in neyi, niye anlatt谋臒谋n谋 anlamaya 莽al谋艧mak.
Nagel'in davran谋艧lar谋 Hamsun romanlar谋nda s谋kl谋kla g枚zlemleyebilece臒iniz romantik bir ili艧kinin ve k眉莽眉k bir 莽evrenin i莽inde g枚zlemleniyor. Kitab谋 s谋k谋c谋 yapan da bu.
Evet, Hamsun b眉y眉k yazar, Nagel'i t眉m derinli臒iyle yans谋t谋yor. Ve bir kahraman谋, ona dair flashback olmadan, eylemleri 眉zerinden, uydurdu臒u hikayeler 眉zerinden kavramaya 莽al谋艧谋yoruz. Hamsun bunu 莽ok iyi ba艧ar谋yor.
Ama bu kitab谋n s谋k谋c谋 oldu臒u ger莽e臒ini de臒i艧tirmiyor. G眉venilmez karakterler i莽eren kitaplar谋 枚zellikle seviyorsan谋z ya da Hamsun a艧谋臒谋ysan谋z benden 莽ok 莽ok 莽ok daha fazla sevece臒inize eminim.
Notum: 3/5
Kitap boyu Nagel'in tutars谋zl谋klar谋 pe艧inde s眉r眉klenip gidiyorsunuz. Kitab谋 莽ekici yapan da bu. Nagel'in neyi, niye anlatt谋臒谋n谋 anlamaya 莽al谋艧mak.
Nagel'in davran谋艧lar谋 Hamsun romanlar谋nda s谋kl谋kla g枚zlemleyebilece臒iniz romantik bir ili艧kinin ve k眉莽眉k bir 莽evrenin i莽inde g枚zlemleniyor. Kitab谋 s谋k谋c谋 yapan da bu.
Evet, Hamsun b眉y眉k yazar, Nagel'i t眉m derinli臒iyle yans谋t谋yor. Ve bir kahraman谋, ona dair flashback olmadan, eylemleri 眉zerinden, uydurdu臒u hikayeler 眉zerinden kavramaya 莽al谋艧谋yoruz. Hamsun bunu 莽ok iyi ba艧ar谋yor.
Ama bu kitab谋n s谋k谋c谋 oldu臒u ger莽e臒ini de臒i艧tirmiyor. G眉venilmez karakterler i莽eren kitaplar谋 枚zellikle seviyorsan谋z ya da Hamsun a艧谋臒谋ysan谋z benden 莽ok 莽ok 莽ok daha fazla sevece臒inize eminim.
Notum: 3/5
May 22, 2017
兀爻乇丕乇 .....賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳
鬲賵賲丕爻 賲丕賳 賰丕賳 賷乇賶 兀賳賴 賱賲 鬲賹賲賳丨 噩丕卅夭丞 賳賵亘賱 賯胤 賱賰丕鬲亘兀賰孬乇噩丿丕乇丞 亘賴丕 賲賳 賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳.
兀賴賵 丿爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷 亘購毓孬 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 賮毓賱丕責兀賲 兀賳賳丕 賱賲 賳賮鬲丨 亘毓丿 賰賱 丕賱兀亘賵丕亘 丕賱賲鬲丕丨丞 賱賳丕 賮賷 毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱噩賱賷賱丞.
賰賳賵鬲 賴丕賲爻賵賳 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀賴賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱兀賵乇賵亘賷賷賳 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱19 賵兀賵丕卅賱 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳貙賮賴賵 賲賳 兀賴賲 丕賱兀氐賵丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賳丕丿鬲 亘丕賱鬲丨乇乇 賱賱兀丿亘賲賳 賯亘囟丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷賷賳貙賵賱賲賷賰鬲賮 亘賲噩乇丿 賴噩賵賲 賲丕 毓賱賷賴賲禺貙亘賱 丕鬲亘毓賴 亘賰鬲丕亘丞 賲丕 兀噩賲毓 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賱賶 廿賳賴丕 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 鬲丨賮賴 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞貙賵賴賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 兀爻乇丕乇.
賵賱賵賱丕 丕賳丨賷丕夭 丕賱乇噩賱 賱賱丨乇賰丞 丕賱賳丕夭賷丞 賵丿賮丕毓賴 毓賳 賴鬲賱乇貙賱賰賳丕 賵噩丿賳丕 丕丨鬲賮丕亍 兀賰孬乇賵兀賰孬乇亘賴.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘亘爻丕胤丞 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 禺賱賷胤 賲賲鬲毓 亘賷賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 丕賱賲鬲賯賳賴 匕丕鬲 丕賱毓賲賯 丕賱賰丕卮賮 賱卮禺賵氐賴貙賵亘賷賳 丨爻 噩乇賷賲丞貙賵賮賵賯 賰賱 匕賱賰賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 賲賮丕噩兀丞 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賵兀賳 賷氐丿賲賴.
乇賵丕賷丞 毓馗賷賲丞 亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲丨賲賱賴丕 丕賱賰賱賲丞 賲賳 賲毓賳賶.
March 10, 2008
It reminded me a lot of Twin Peaks--there's even a midget, and there's actually a Twin Peaks episode that drops Hamsun's name, so I'm sure David Lynch loves this book--but the Agent Cooper isn't an agent, he's an eccentric stranger who mysteriously shows up in a small town in Norway, who like Cooper, mingles and charms his way into the town scene and gets caught up in their dark inner secrets. Same tone and scariness and humor too.....I want to reread this soon.
February 20, 2020
乇賵丕賷丞 賱胤賷賮丞貙 乇睾賲 兀賳賷 賱賲 兀賮賴賲 賲丕 丨丿孬 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞! 兀賵 兀鬲馗丕賴乇 亘匕賱賰貙 賱丕 兀丿乇賷.
鬲賰賱賲 賲賳 賯丿賲 賳爻禺鬲賴丕 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賰孬賷乇丕 毓賳 鬲賷丕乇 丕賱賵毓賷貙 賱賰賳 賲丕 卮丿賳賷 兀賰孬乇 賴賷 胤乇賷賯丞 賳賷噩賱 賮賷 丕賱鬲賱丕毓亘 亘毓賯賱 賲賳 丨賵賱賴貙 賱丕 兀丿乇賷 丕賱賵氐賮 丕賱氐丨賷丨 賴賱 mind games? Manipulation? Brainwashing?
兀賵丿 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 賱丿賷 賴匕賴 丕賱賯丿乇丞 丕賱睾賷乇 賳亘賷賱丞貙 賱賰賳賷 兀胤賷亘 賲賳 賲丕乇鬲丕 賱賱兀爻賮.
鬲賰賱賲 賲賳 賯丿賲 賳爻禺鬲賴丕 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賰孬賷乇丕 毓賳 鬲賷丕乇 丕賱賵毓賷貙 賱賰賳 賲丕 卮丿賳賷 兀賰孬乇 賴賷 胤乇賷賯丞 賳賷噩賱 賮賷 丕賱鬲賱丕毓亘 亘毓賯賱 賲賳 丨賵賱賴貙 賱丕 兀丿乇賷 丕賱賵氐賮 丕賱氐丨賷丨 賴賱 mind games? Manipulation? Brainwashing?
兀賵丿 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 賱丿賷 賴匕賴 丕賱賯丿乇丞 丕賱睾賷乇 賳亘賷賱丞貙 賱賰賳賷 兀胤賷亘 賲賳 賲丕乇鬲丕 賱賱兀爻賮.
September 18, 2011
I've always wanted to read a book by an author named Knut. But first let me give you 200 crowns and I'll tell you a story that happened to me in San Francisco. First, though, I'm in love with you and I can't live without you. I can't really play the violin even though I have a violin case but everybody in town wants me to play. You're really a very sinister person underneath - it might not look like it now, but you will turn out badly - like The Midget. The dastardly midget replaced my prussic acid with spring water and I've tried to kill myself but all I do is run around and slam my head into the ground. And that chair that is missing two legs - it is a masterpiece! I collect them and cowbells and will give you 200 crowns for it!
A stranger comes into town and causes mayhem and confusion. What it all means? I don't know, but the above paragraph sums it up as much as anything else can. What are the mysteries? It's a mystery...
A stranger comes into town and causes mayhem and confusion. What it all means? I don't know, but the above paragraph sums it up as much as anything else can. What are the mysteries? It's a mystery...
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April 21, 2020Rekoh ve膰 da mi je nedostajalo Hamsunovo pisanje...i stojim iza toga. Drago mi je da opet dohvatih njegovo 拧tivo, prepustih se 啪ivopisnom pripovedanju i na par dana preselih ponovo u norve拧ke krajeve.
Istovremeno, moram priznati i da mi je ovo bilo, za 膷itanje, jedno od (njegovih) napornijih dela - ne jer je te拧ko, turobno ili nerazumljivo, ve膰 iz razloga 拧to mi je glavni junak bio izuzetno antipati膷an...tirade unutra拧njih monologa, buka misli i teatralne besede u dru拧tvu su u meni na trenutke izazivale 啪estoko negodovanje i reakcije tipa "dokle vi拧e!?"
Ve膰 du啪e vreme se nisam srela sa mu拧kim knji啪evnim likom koji u ovolikoj meri odi拧e jadom i patetikom...iako Hamsunu upravo takvi nisu uop拧te strani.
(Setimo se sirotog pukovnika Tomasa, 啪rtve neuzvra膰ene ljubavi, zatim Edevarta - on tako膽e u nekoliko navrata gubi glavu zbog gospo膽e koja ba拧 i ne haje preterano za njega... 膷ak i ve膷iti lutalica Avgust u sebi nosi neku op拧te prisutnu setu i nemir u srcu, uprkos tome 拧to se vazda predstavlja kao glavni dasa, uvek pun pri膷a i kojekakvih dogodov拧tina - Nagel me je nebrojeno puta podsetio na njega, kad god bi se zaneo nekom svojom storijom.
Sve u svemu, 膷ini mi se da sam nekako najvi拧e razumevanja imala za lamentiranje glavnog junaka Gladi, jer je njegova beda zaista bila osnovana i opravdana.)
S druge strane, ne treba zaboraviti da je Hamsun "napao tradicionalni roman jer primenjuje povr拧nu psihologiju i utilitarno se bavi socijalnim problemima, dok je on u prvi plan istakao "subjektivnost autora", 膷ije vi膽enje 啪ivota i ljudi izvire iz emocija..." te i ne 膷udi 拧to ovo nije klasi膷na naracija koja nas upoznaje sa 啪iteljima u膷malog skandinavskog grada, ve膰 ulazi u mra膷ne dubine ljudske psihe - pa ko voli, nek izvoli.
Kao zaklju膷ak bih ipak navela da - ja volim :)
Iako svaka njegova naredna knjiga ostavlja sve slabiji utisak (mo啪da je do拧lo do zasi膰enja ili "ve膰 vi膽eno" momenta), neosporno je da mi je Hamsun i te kako prirastao srcu i verujem da 膰u mu se i dalje vra膰ati. 膶itanje njegove proze (u LOMovom izdanju, naravno) je u mom slu膷aju ve膰 postalo svojevrsni ritual, koji rado praktikujem, bar jednom godi拧nje.
Istovremeno, moram priznati i da mi je ovo bilo, za 膷itanje, jedno od (njegovih) napornijih dela - ne jer je te拧ko, turobno ili nerazumljivo, ve膰 iz razloga 拧to mi je glavni junak bio izuzetno antipati膷an...tirade unutra拧njih monologa, buka misli i teatralne besede u dru拧tvu su u meni na trenutke izazivale 啪estoko negodovanje i reakcije tipa "dokle vi拧e!?"
Ve膰 du啪e vreme se nisam srela sa mu拧kim knji啪evnim likom koji u ovolikoj meri odi拧e jadom i patetikom...iako Hamsunu upravo takvi nisu uop拧te strani.
(Setimo se sirotog pukovnika Tomasa, 啪rtve neuzvra膰ene ljubavi, zatim Edevarta - on tako膽e u nekoliko navrata gubi glavu zbog gospo膽e koja ba拧 i ne haje preterano za njega... 膷ak i ve膷iti lutalica Avgust u sebi nosi neku op拧te prisutnu setu i nemir u srcu, uprkos tome 拧to se vazda predstavlja kao glavni dasa, uvek pun pri膷a i kojekakvih dogodov拧tina - Nagel me je nebrojeno puta podsetio na njega, kad god bi se zaneo nekom svojom storijom.
Sve u svemu, 膷ini mi se da sam nekako najvi拧e razumevanja imala za lamentiranje glavnog junaka Gladi, jer je njegova beda zaista bila osnovana i opravdana.)
S druge strane, ne treba zaboraviti da je Hamsun "napao tradicionalni roman jer primenjuje povr拧nu psihologiju i utilitarno se bavi socijalnim problemima, dok je on u prvi plan istakao "subjektivnost autora", 膷ije vi膽enje 啪ivota i ljudi izvire iz emocija..." te i ne 膷udi 拧to ovo nije klasi膷na naracija koja nas upoznaje sa 啪iteljima u膷malog skandinavskog grada, ve膰 ulazi u mra膷ne dubine ljudske psihe - pa ko voli, nek izvoli.
Kao zaklju膷ak bih ipak navela da - ja volim :)
Iako svaka njegova naredna knjiga ostavlja sve slabiji utisak (mo啪da je do拧lo do zasi膰enja ili "ve膰 vi膽eno" momenta), neosporno je da mi je Hamsun i te kako prirastao srcu i verujem da 膰u mu se i dalje vra膰ati. 膶itanje njegove proze (u LOMovom izdanju, naravno) je u mom slu膷aju ve膰 postalo svojevrsni ritual, koji rado praktikujem, bar jednom godi拧nje.
August 6, 2016
Yes. "Mercurial." That is the word that kept coming to my mind to describe Johan Nagel, the central character of Knut Hamsun's masterful Mysteries. Specifically, entries 2 and 4. Maybe not "thievishness" (though I wouldn't put it past him--not for a second), but Nagel embodied the other characteristics so much that I often found myself wondering if he was actually a flesh-and-blood human or some kind of earthbound trickster god sentenced by the "All-Father" to live among the mortals. I doubt it, but I can't rule it out. Such are the "mysteries" that Hamsun gives us.
Certainly there are abundant mysteries in Mysteries, but I didn't see the novel as a puzzle that Hamsun intended for us to piece together to get all the answers, like those people who analyzed, re-analyzed and over-analyzed every single element of Lost trying to find the answer instead of just enjoying the damn show. I doubt that Hamsun had all the answers himself. I think he knew that the questions are so much more interesting than the answers.
Agh, I loved the book (maybe not as quite as much as Hunger, but it's up there), but I'm not quite feeling a review for it yet. Maybe I'll try again later.
Just read s.penkevich's review, it is quite dandy.
April 4, 2020
Nagel is a disrupter鈥攈e annihilates social norms wherever he goes. And in this case he goes to a small town by the sea, where he proceeds to woo various women, tell outrageous stories while holding drunken court in his hotel room, and generally act at odds with conventional behavior. He is immediately drawn to both the town鈥檚 outcasts and its social elite, equally at ease in the company of both. Though he can be charming and the life of the party, he is also an outsider, appearing only to play a role in social situations, while when alone he grows anxious and disturbed. At his most interesting Nagel reminds me of many of Robert Walser's characters, but more volatile in his unpredictability. At his least interesting he is a bloviating cad prone to tedious, rambling monologues that taxed my patience as a reader. His frequent speeches and diatribes wreak havoc on the pacing of the novel, much to its detriment. Ultimately this lacks the narrative drive and focus of Hunger, but nonetheless it鈥檚 an interesting literary artifact. No doubt it generated quite a bit of head scratching when it was published.
November 29, 2019
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