Mysteries

One of Knut Hamsun’s landmark novels, which had a huge influence on all modernist literature of the 20th century. A work in which the main principles and themes of the author’s early works—provincial themes and the “man from outside,” society and a strong personality—come through most vividly.

A strange man arrives in a small, dreary provincial town—an expressive painter, a foreigner who is unaccustomed to following the bourgeois laws of society. And his very appearance changes the town’s life beyond recognition…