Knut Hamsun: 40 books

Aclamado por Isaac Bashevis Singer como "el padre de la literatura moderna", Knut Hamsun inspiró, de hecho, a autores de la talla de Thomas Mann, Maksim Gorki, Franz Kafka y Hermann Hesse, y se hizo merecedor del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1920 por La bendición de la tierra, "una obra monumental"...

**A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic** First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical...

Ove Rolandsen, the telegraph operator in an isolated fishing village in northern Norway, is a man of sudden passions, a cheerful rogue fond of girls and alcohol. He constantly hatches ambitious schemes to the despair of his fiancée, Marie, housekeeper at the vicarage. When a plan to manufacture glue...

Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern,...

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia...

En 1949, el mismo día en el que recibió la sentencia del tribunal noruego que le juzgaba por un supuesto delito de traición a la patria, Hamsun, un anciano de ochenta y nueve años que había pasado de ser el escritor más amado de su país al más odiado, escribió la frase final del manuscrito...

Una de las novelas más modernas de Hamsun, que es por otra parte, su última obra y la cuarta del premio Nobel noruego que publicamos en Nórdica. Abel, único hijo de un farero y una madre alcohólica,va creciendo en un remoto pueblo noruego. Aunque lleva una vida en condiciones difíciles, ambiciona...

**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...

The Ring is Closed combines a central character as iconoclastic as that of Hunger with an evocation of the limitations of small-town life to equal Mysteries. Abel is the only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper, after falling in love he leaves his life in a village in southern Norway and travels around...

Con un eccentrico abito giallo, un astuccio di violino e una boccetta di veleno nel panciotto Johan Nagel compare all’improvviso in una cittadina della costa norvegese. Impossibile capire chi sia veramente questo misterioso sconosciuto, seducente affabulatore, ribelle e cinico, brutale e ultrasensibile....

Ci sono incontri, sguardi, gesti, parole che possono segnare il cammino di una vita. Ce li portiamo accanto, continuando a riconcorrerli e a ritrovarli, e tanto più forte è l’estasi quando l’immagine inseguita ci si ripropone. È questo che accade al consueto vagabondo in cui Hamsun proietta...

The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W W Worster in his footnote in December 1920:"It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain...

**The first complete English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s literary masterpiece A Penguin Classic** Mysteries is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer—and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a...