![]() That’s a quite thorough summary of the writer’s early life and work, and a nice summary of what makes it so compelling. Hamsun died in 1952, and since then a growing body of readers has been drawn to his work by its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination. The best known of Hamsun’s other novels are Pan (1894) and Victoria (1898). His novel Mysteries was intended as a demonstration of what this new literature should be. Hamsun rejected the social preoccupations of contemporary fiction, and criticized its lack of understanding of ‘the unconscious life of the mind’. His first successful novel was Hunger (1980). In the 1880s he spent two periods in America. He started work at an early age, and led a jack-of-all-trades existence. Knut Hamsun was born of peasant stock in Northern Norway, in 1859. Here is the biography of Knut Hamsun provided in my 1973 Picador edition of ‘Mysteries’. Mysterious Biographies and Alarming Obituaries ![]()
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