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List of contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Translation
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Knut Hamsun
- PAN
- Explanatory Notes
About the author
Tore Rem is Professor of British literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. His books include Dickens, Melodrama and the Parodic Imagination (2002), Henry Gibson/Henrik Ibsen (2006), and a two-volume biography of the Norwegian playwright and public intellectual Jens Bjørneboe. He is the author of many articles on Ibsen's English-language reception, and is engaged in the research project 'The Scandinavian Moment in World Literature.' He is currently Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.
Terence Cave is Emeritus Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College. He is the author of The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (1979), Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (2011), and many other studies in French and comparative literature. He is currently director of the project 'Literature as an Object of Knowledge', based at the St John's College Research Centre.
Summary
One of Knut Hamsun's most famous works, it tells the story of Thomas Glahn, a lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop.
Additional text
Given the rarity of non-British/American novels in the main canon, it is a good idea for this work to be assigned in a world literature class. And a copy of it should also be available in all types of libraries to make it accessible to the different types of readers and scholars who might be interested in accessing it.
