![]() ![]() A young officer, Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, retires from the military and moves far away, on a small island in Nordland, to live there lonely in the woods, hunting and fishing, his rhythms and moods following the rhythms and moods of nature, the alternation of sundowns and sunsets, of summer's endless days and winter's long nights, the coming and going of seasons, the caprices of weather, the moves of clouds on the sky, the winds, the storms, the snowfalls, the sunny days. The story takes place in Norway, sometime in the 1850's. Once you start reading it you don't leave the book up to the end. So begins Pan, the novel Knut Hamsun published in 1894. ![]() ![]() I sit here and think of it, and of a hut I lived in, and the forest behind the hut, and I’m writing this to help pass the time, and to amuse myself. These last few days I have thought and thought of the Nordland summer’s endless day. ![]()
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