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Deliciously romantic and ecstatic, earnest and mysterious - very gleeful, yet inhabited by fluctuating notions of enormous melancholia. As a whole, I don't know if I like it as much as the two others I've read by Hamsun (Sult and Mysterier), but it contain passages of uniquely sincere, frantic and passionate outbreaks impossible to resist. ( )

This was my introduction to Knut Hamsun and he writes beautifully! His voice is distinct penetrates the reading. Definitely one of the top writers out there. Looking forward to reading his other books. ( )

I wonder how people summed up the experience of "first love" before roller coasters were invented? Holding that analogy for a moment.... I've come across three novels over the years that attempt to take the reader along for the dizzying ride. Turgenev's "First Love", Spencer's "Endless Love", and Hamsun's "Pan." I think teenagers should read all three as a sort of shotgun flu vaccine. Maybe one of these tales will help shorten the time inevitably spent in romantic sick bay. Pan is a swift read, two hours at most, nicely set against the seasons of a Northern sky and Norwegian wood. Think of it as a Goethe/Thoreau mix... "The Sorrows of Young Walden". It would make a pretty film, maybe in the cinematic style of "The Atonement". In thinking of it as a film, the epilogue "Glahn's Death" seems less superfluous because we are accustomed by now to stories that are completed and tailored to satisfy focus groups. I feel though, that the novella is better without the epilogue. For in real life, most victims of first love, like victims of the flu, survive. Hahaahhh..choo! ( )