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Pan: d'après les papiers du lieutenant Thomas Glahn

Knut HamsunApril 25, 2013

République des Lettres

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Knut Hamsun. Pan, de l'écrivain norvégien Knut Hamsun, met en scène un personnage que l'on retrouve souvent dans son oeuvre, celui du vagabond solitaire et fantasque trop proche de la nature pour ne pas être en rupture avec la société et le monde moderne. L'ex-Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, figure manifestement héritière du Werther de Goethe et du prince Mychkine de Dostoïevski, est un chasseur aussi orgueilleux que solitaire vivant avec son chien Ésope dans une cabane de la grande forêt du Nordland. La jeune mais sophistiquée Edvarda, qui, après l'avoir séduit, le délaisse en raison de son caractère impossible et de ses mauvaises manières en société, le rend fou amoureux. Une autre jeune femme, Eva, plus modeste, lui voue elle un amour simple et sincère. Prix Nobel de littérature, écrivain admiré par Thomas Mann, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells ou encore Henry Miller, Knut Hamsun nous livre ici, entre mythes et légendes du Nordland, sur le rythme changeant des saisons, un magnifique roman lyrique vibrant des profonds mystères de la nature et de la passion amoureuse.

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République des Lettres

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Apr 25, 2013

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144

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9782824901237

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