Mysteries (novel)

Mysteries

First edition cover
Author	Knut Hamsun
Original title	Mysterier
Translator	Gerry Bothmer
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian
Genre	Psychological novel
Publisher	Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Farrar, Straus and Giroux Penguin Classics
Publication date	1892 (Norway) 1971 (USA)
Media type	Print
Pages	352
Preceded by	Hunger
Followed by	Redaktør Lynge

Mysteries (Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.

The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeoisie inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations.

The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. It was translated into English by Gerry Bothmer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, "The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun."Mysteries is said to have "the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist."