Mysteries

One of the iconic novels by Hamsun that had a huge impact on the entire modernist literature of the 20th century. A work in which the main principles and themes of the author's early works - the themes of the province and the "outsider", society and the strong personality - are most vividly presented. A strange man arrives in a small, dreary provincial town - an expressive artist, an outsider, unaccustomed to obeying the bourgeois laws of society. His very presence changes the town's life beyond recognition...