Pan

Summary

"Pan" by Knut Hamsun is a novel written in 1894. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a solitary hunter living in a forest hut, falls into a turbulent romance with Edvarda, a merchant's daughter from a nearby town. Neither truly understands the other's love. As Glahn struggles with the suffocating world of society, their relationship unfolds through changing seasons—spring attraction, summer passion, autumn's end. A tragic epilogue reveals Glahn's ultimate fate in India, told through another's eyes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)