Original title Mysterier Country Norway Media type Print Genre Psychological Fiction | Translator Gerry Bothmer Language Norwegian Originally published 1892 Page count 352 Adaptations Mysteries (1978) | |
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Publication date 1892 (Norway)
1971 (USA) Publishers Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Similar Works by Knut Hamsun, Norway books, Fiction books | ||
Mysteries (Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.
Contents
Plot
The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeoisie inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations.
Publication
The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. It was translated into English by Gerry Bothmer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, "The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun." Mysteries is said to have "the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist."