Knut Hamsun is a Nobel Prize-winning author from Norway. I re-read Mysteries in honor of our upcoming trip to Norway and my recent experience with a more contemporary Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard.
My review from 20 years ago holds up pretty well. Mysteries definitely feels like a modernist novel rather than one published in 1897. The enjoyment comes from trying to puzzle out Nagel's behavior, to determine the method behind his apparent madness. The main shortcoming is a lack of narrative progress.
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