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| Original Title: | Mysterier ISBN13 9780374530297 URL http://www.hamsun.dk/dk/hamsun_boger.html |
| Characters: | Johan Nagel |
| Setting: | Norway |
Knut Hamsun
Paperback | Pages: 348 pages Rating: 4.09 | 5358 Users | 360 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mysteries |
| Author | : | Knut Hamsun |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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.Rating Appertaining To Books Mysteries
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction & NotesSuggestions for Further ReadingTranslator's Note--MysteriesExplanatory NotesTextual NotesI adore Knut Hamsun's ability to write such realistic internal monologue. A friend recommended this book to me when I told him that one day in the lab, I was suddenly hit with the paranoia that I had gotten a drop of hydrofluoric acid on myself, and was somewhat convinced that there was a chance I could die right there. One of the scenes in this book describes perfectly what that feeling is like and what ridiculous thoughts run through your mind during such a moment. Definitely will go back and
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.
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
I tend to hold off reading introductions to novels until after I finish it. Academics don't give a flim-flam for spoilers and will ruin the entire endeavor if you're not careful. (Do they actually 'read'?) That said, I'd advise that one actually DO read the intro to this novel because had I known going into it what I learned only after the fact, I would've received it a little more graciously.A strange young man, we'd probably call him 'emo' today, spends a summer in a little town of Norway
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
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