Book description
The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche
A Penguin Classic
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest,…
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1 author picked Pan as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Knut Hamsun is one the greatest writers of all time, in my opinion.
And yes, I am separating the work from the person and the political views. Hamsun was a strange guy and he wrote mainly about strange guys.
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is one of them, the protagonist of Pan. Glahn is an ex-soldier, living in a hunting hut near a small harbour town in Norway. Technically, Pan is a love story. But it is not a typical love story. It is so co-dependent and twisted that it literally hurts.
Glahn is at best an idiot, at worst some…
From Stefán's list on losing faith in humanity but having a good time.
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