![]() And when I get up to go, I do not throw the twig away but lay it down and stand there feeling sorry for it." The twig is nearly rotten, its poor bark affects me, pity stirring my heart. I pick up a dry twig, hold it in my hand and look at it as I sit there having my own thoughts. ".I'm filled with a mysterious gratitude everything befriends me, intermingles with me, I love all things. On the one hand, he demonstrates a level of empathy with nature and sensitivity towards the world around him that is absolutely remarkable. ![]() The protagonist, Glahn, is a figure of immense complexity. The words are like strands of tiny seed pearls, threaded together with the deft hands of a master jewelry maker. ![]() First, it is a story of breathtaking simplicity. There will be no polemics in it, just people under different skies." Hamsun did indeed succeed in creating a novel of great beauty, an almost mystical fable that can be understood When speaking of the writing of Pan in a letter from Paris, dated October 1893, Knut Hamsun said, "My new book will be beautiful it takes place in Nordland, a quiet and red love story. Pan, From the Papers of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn by Knut Hamsun ![]()
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