- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0141180676
- ISBN-13: 978-0141180670
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #630,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
and what is human nature? the wild? the cultured?,
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This review is from: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Paperback)
Pan begins as a nature story - detailed, lush, knowledgeable descriptions of nature, of living a solitary existence, of feeding off the forest and sea. Phrases such as "there was a sweet sulphurous smell from the old leaves rotting in the woods" lull the reader into an expectation of a pastoral romance novel. This is anything but. It is, rather, an exploration of the relationship of the solitary Lt. Glahn with two women in particular and society in general. Lt. Glahn is socially inept and impulsive. The two women? One is servile and unavailable; the other, more interested in the power of the chase than the capture. The resulting story is an intriguing study of human emotions, of motivation and of the honesty of self-revelation. An excellent book by an excellent author.
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Hamsun Skewers Noble Savage Myth,
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This review is from: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Paperback)
Pan is a short, terse, novel about a reclusive "wild" man, Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, gifted with sexual charisma who idealizes nature and himself but is blind to his arrested development, his cruelty, and his enslavement to his own compulsive actions, which, as the novel progresses, have tragic consequences. By showing the disparity between Glahn's perception of himself, which is rather romantic and lofty, with the "other" Glahn, the uncouth, abrasive one who clashes with other people, Knut Hamsun succeeds in writing an ambiguous, mysteirous fable about the conflict between solitude and civilization, and how the "self" cannot be defined in its isolated state.
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Bronte Meets Woolf And It Works Well,
By Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Paperback)
I sat up all night, reading the whole story. This tale about a lonely, self-destructive man in Norway, who happens to meet a young girl and starts to love her, looks like "Wuthering Heights" written by Virginia Woolf. Introspective, but not too much "stream of consciousness" that might make you bored. Basically a love story and tradegy, it is an absorbing story; sometimes very violent, but surely it touches the innermost recess of most unaccountable aspects of humans' heart: passion of love and hate. Still, beware; sometimes its violence sounds like "Takeshi" films and sexual nuance is always there, though much less than DH Lawrence.
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