Knut Hamsun: Hunger. Pan. Victoria. Printed book.

This edition includes three undisputed masterpieces by the author, created in the last decade of the 19th century: the novels "Hunger," "Pan," and "Victoria."
Knut Hamsun is a recognized classic of Norwegian literature and the winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize. Hamsun achieved worldwide fame with his novel "Hunger" (1890), which struck readers with its innovative style and boldness of narrative. It was followed by novels, novellas, and short stories that cemented Hamsun's reputation as one of the leading prose writers of his time.
"Hunger" is a largely autobiographical novel that brought the author worldwide fame. It is a story, terrifying in its simplicity, of a young, unrecognized writer balancing day after day on the verge of starvation. Reality and bizarre, painful fantasies intertwine in his consciousness, which agonizingly struggles with the disparity between the ideal and the material world... "Pan" is a novella that explores the theme of human freedom. Its protagonist, Lieutenant Glahn, living as a hermit in a secluded forest cabin, finds himself at the center of a complex love triangle with two very different women... "Victoria" is a novel about the struggle of human emotions; its concise and dramatic plot tells the story of the deep, agonizing, and impossible love between two people from different social classes – Johannes, the miller's son, and Victoria, the daughter of a local landowner...

Author: Knut Hamsun 

Translation: Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Elena Surits, Juliana Yakhnina

Pages: 448 (newsprint). Softcover

Dimensions: 180x115x20 mm

Series: Azbuka-Klassika