

The 1978 film Mysteries was based on the novel. The novel inspired Paul Juon to write his tone-poem for cello and orchestra, "Mysteries" op.59, written in 1914 and published in 1928. Penguin published a third translation into English by Sverre Lyngstad in 2001. Another translation by Gerry Bothmer was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, "The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun." Mysteries is said to have "the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist". In 1922, Knopf published the first English translation, a bowdlerized translation by Arthur G. Nagel arrives in a Norwegian town with plenty of money and goodwill, and though kind of an eccentric, seems to start to fit in with the. The main character, like the title says, is a mysterious guy. The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. 1 Available Quantity: Add to Cart Add to Wish List Book Overview This description may be from another edition of this product.

The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeois inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations.

Urn:oclc:837034138 Republisher_date 20171007122300 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 362 Scandate 20171003072955 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0025 Tts_version v1.Mysteries ( Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:10:33.153022 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1157719 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Rev.
