Mysteries - Tapa blanda

Mysteries is closer to me than any other book I've read. (Henry Miller .)

Hamsun has the qualities that belong to the very great, the completest omniscience about human nature. (.)

A rare understanding of human nature comes through, expressed in a measured, elegiac and lyrical prose. (Sunday Telegraph .)

Hamsun is one of the great writers of this century - his nearest British equivalent being I suspect Thomas Hardy. Hamsun's novels have the simplicity of total self-possession, of the clearest possible understanding of the human world... a unique beauty of expression. (Sunday Times .)

The most outstanding Norwegian writer since Ibsen. (Times Literary Supplement .)

I read these novels with the gently expanding recognition due only to the great writers. (Doris Lessing The Independent)

Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town. His presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the local people. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own self-destruction.