The program “Bestseller.” One of the landmark novels for Gamsun’s work, in which the main principles and themes of his early writing—provincial life and “the outsider”—society and the strong personality opposing it simply by the fact of their existence—are presented with an unprecedented raw power. Into a small provincial town—oppressively quiet, dull, and calm—arrives a strange man: an artist, a drifter, an eccentric who neither wants nor is used to obeying the town’s bourgeois laws. And even his very appearance changes the town’s life beyond recognition— for better or for worse, who knows?