Pan

Name: Pan
Author: Knut Hamsun

by Knut Hamsun

Novella of a hermit's brooding isolation and mysterious relationship with a young woman

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Knut Hamsun

Norwegian author and Nobel laureate who is considered the father of modern psychological literature. Hunger and Pan established new modes of interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness that profoundly influenced later modernist writers.

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