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The Last Joy is the final part in Hamsun's Wanderer Trilogy. With its richly varied contents, this work combines the lyricism of Hamsun's Pan (1894) and the epic scope of his Nobel prize-winning Growth of the Soil (1917). The middle-aged narrator of this story is a Hamsun double, who leaves the wild, where he has lived in a turf hut, for a tourist resort and, later, the city, where he contacts Miss Torsen, a beautiful young school teacher he met at the resort. He follows her sexual escapades, including rape, with the intense, vicarious interest of a voyeur.

New edition of the 1929 English-language version of Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun's 1923 novel Det Siste Kapitel. Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater. Chapter the Last is set in the Torahus sanatorium, where the sufferings of most of the patients are related to civilization. The novel has a group of central characters, but no distinct main character. Among the characters is "The Suicide," who entered the sanatorium following the discovery of his wife's infidelity and threatens constantly to take his own life. Another guest is the lovely Julie d''Espard. She enters into a relationship with the bogus Count Flemming and get pregnant. When Flemming disappears one day she turns to Daniel Utby, who runs a small farm near Torahus and who represents the novel's ideological norm. Chapter the Last is one of Hamsun's darkest novels. It was written at a time when he was much preoccupied by death. The novel is often compared with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which was published the year after.

Der reiche Handelsmann und ungekrönte König des Ortes, Ferdinand Mack, hat aus einer Laune heraus beschlossen, aus dem kleinen Postbeamten Benoni Hartvigsen einen wohlhabenden Kaufmann zu machen. Ein Bestandteil des Planes ist die Verlobung mit Rosa Barfod, die früh zu erkennen gibt, dass Benoni nicht ihre eigene Wahl ist. Eine ernste Krise zwischen den Verlobten steht bevor, als Rosas Jugendfreund Nikolai Arentsen nach beendetem Studium in seine Heimat zurückkehrt. Hamsun macht in 'Benoni' seelische Vorgänge sichtbar, die diesem Nordlandroman psychologisch-realistische Tiefe verleihen.

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"Victoria - A Love Story" stands all by itself in the long series of works by Knut Hamsun. The chief male character, to be sure, bears the stamp of the author’s own personality; he, like his predecessors, clashes with society and its unwritten laws, but succeeds in adjusting himself without betraying his innermost being. Only in his love he suffers disaster. In poetic quality Victoria vies with Pan. We find long passages of lyric prose in both, the beauty of which is hard to surpass, but they have nothing in common with regard to the general atmosphere. Victoria is only a simple love story in prose. But what a prose where the author is at his best! Two youthful lovers are separated by the insuperable barriers of social conventions and economic circumstances. The young man, Johannes, is the son of a humble miller, Victoria the daughter of the proud master of the neighboring castle Hamsun intentionally leaves his readers somewhat in the dark about the exact social status of this old aristocrat. Johannes and Victoria have grown up together, have been playmates, and have come to love each other long before they reached adolescence. To save her lavish father from utter ruin, Victoria consents to marry a rich suitor. During the period of her engagement, she confesses to Johannes that she loves him, only to send him away on the next day because the whole thing is impossible, even though Johannes has made a man of himself and has already achieved fame as a poet. Bu then, at the eleventh hour fate seems to intervene …

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Misterios es un clásico de la literatura europea y una de las novelas seminales del siglo xx. Es la historia de Johan Nagel, un extraño joven que llega a un pequeño pueblo costero noruego para pasar un verano. Su presencia actúa como catalizador de los impulsos y pensamientos ocultos y los instintos más oscuros de la población local. Incapaz de comprender el alma humana, especialmente la suya propia, Nagel puede prever, pero no evitar su propia autodestrucción. Pocos libros permiten al lector entrar en el alma de su creador como Misterios, la novela que anticipó los temas que llevarían la obra de Knut Hamsun a ser una de las cumbres de la literatura nórdica, y a su autor a recibir, en 1920, el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Otro ganador del Nobel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, señaló, tras leer esta obra: «Toda la literatura del siglo xx proviene de Hamsun».

Recuperamos para el lector español la obra cumbre de este gran escritor noruego, marcado por la tragedia personal, ideológica y política. El protagonista de hambre no tiene nombre, no tiene edad, no se sabe nada de su origen o de su familia. Es un hombre sin pasado, arrancado de su contexto y lanzado al anonimato y la hostilidad de la gran ciudad.