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Mysteries

Knut Hamsun

Paperback | Pages: 348 pages

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Title	:	Mysteries
Author	:	Knut Hamsun
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	August 8th 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1892)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Novels

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In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel's bizarre behavior and feverish rants seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he had arrived.

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Original Title:	Mysterier ISBN13 9780374530297 URL http://www.hamsun.dk/dk/hamsun_boger.html
Characters:	Johan Nagel
Setting:	Norway

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Henry Miller described Mysteries as closer to me than any other book I have read. Im no Henry Miller, but it is a very dear book to me too, quite like a close friend. It seems that there is no getting to the bottom of it, no matter how many times you engage with it, just like a human being. On a first reading it is seems a mere catalogue of disconnected events taking place in small town, with a stranger called Nagel at their centre, who has arrived on a steamer. He comes and goes and behaves in

I finished reading this novel with a strange sense of detachment, alienation and silence. I didnt know what do I think of it, maybe I was totally puzzled, maybe because I read Hunger first and i kept on falling in the trap of comparing it with other Hamsun's novels. To be honest, sometimes I think it's wrong to read an author's masterpiece before his/her other novels. despite the fact that he didn't receive his nobel prize for Hunger. However, that novel left me totally with a different

A man, Johan Nilsen Nagel, blew into town a created a stir because of his uncetain origins, unpredictable behavior and sometimes odd appearance. He'd try to help some people but would often be misunderstood. He himself would also be confused about his own motivations.I read this as an allegory. Passages and phrases here and there reminded me of the biblical story of Jesus Christ. Even the way Nagel died here hints strongly of Christ's agony on the cross and in the Garden of Gethsemane before he

Sometimes I ask myself why I ever bothered to study Russian. Bergman speaks to me in ways that Tarkovsky never will (we have a tradition of watching the complete Fanny och Alexander every Christmas), I'd rather eat at Copenhagen's Noma than anywhere in Russia, and Knut Hamsun's novels are far superior to anything Dostoevsky ever wrote. Well, I've only read this one, but I've got a gut feeling...The plot of Mysteries is extremely simple--a strange man, Nagel, comes to town. An inferior novelist

Nagel is a disrupterhe 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 towns 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

I was introduced to the author Knut Hamsun by reading his first novel, Hunger. It is a Dostoevskian tale of a young journalist who is literally starving to death. His story is about trying to write and live while not even being able to afford a scrap of food, pawning his vest to be able to survive a few more days. It is a searing story that one does not forget. I had reread that book about a year ago, but still had not tackled any of Hamsun's other works before I had picked this book. My

I've decided I need a new bookshelf. 'It's not you, it's me'. Perhaps all ex-Catholics need one of them, the one for the books they feel guilty about not finishing.To begin with I hated this in a 'I hate this but I want to read it' way. That became 'I hate this but by God I'm going to finish it'. And a couple of nights ago, up at 3am that in turn became 'Yeah, nah. Move on'. And sometimes one moves on without the least guilt at all, other times one is tortured by it. Then one adds the inadequacy