Mysteries by Knut Hamsun7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() His shoulders were very broad he was between twenty-eight and thirty, but definitely not older, although his hair was beginning to turn gray at the temples.” On one finger he wore a plain ring of lead or iron. “He was below average in height his face was dark-complexioned, with deep brown eyes which had a strange expression, and a soft, rather feminine mouth. Hamsun’s initial description of Nagel paints a portrait of a rather ordinary individual: Moreover, we are left wondering, at the end, if it was actually meant to. His arrival in a small Norwegian town in 1891, with no visible aim or purpose, is the first piece in a puzzle that doesn’t ever quite fit together. ![]() At the core of the story is Johan Nagel, easily one of the most enigmatic characters in literary history. This is a book in which nothing is quite as it seems to be, and the more closely the reader examines it or tries to make sense of it, the more inexplicable it becomes. To dissect Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries as one would an ordinary novel is impossible. Alexis Wingate - The Mystery of Mysteries ![]()
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