![]() ![]() Hamsun's development of the stream of consciousness becomes particularly beautiful, and extremely comic. The inventor of a certain kind of modern fictionality. ReviewsKnut Hamsun's writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive. Publication City, Country: London, United KingdomÄimensions (cm): 19.8(H) x 12.9(L) x 2.2(W) Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own destruction. Nagel's presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the townsfolk. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open defiance and erratic self-revelations. A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave very curiously. 'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' write James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. ![]()
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