HANSUM, KNUT
The Norwegian Nobel laureate wrote Pan while living in Paris. Strongly influenced by Dostoevsky, it is above all a work of great beauty and simplicity that can be experienced on many levels. Commenting on his work in progress, Knut Hamsun said: "My new book will be beautiful; it takes place in Nordland, a quiet, red love story. There will be no polemics in it, just people under different skies." Although it has provoked many varied interpretations, the novel remains an enigma. Thomas Glahn, a solitary hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, wanders through the northernmost wilderness of Norway. Living in a hut on the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the strange girl Edvarda enters his life.