Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Condition:Well Read learning about their island

learning about their island

while tales such as the Nose and Loyalty paint a richly imaginative picture of medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests

something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation

from the ancient technologies of fabrics and ceramic to today's self-healing metals and bionic implants

Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Condition:Well Read learning about their islandFirst published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's "Pan" is former lieutenant Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. A man of fascinating complexity, Glahn is in some respects a modern successor to a long line of "superfluous" men in Western literature, an heir to Goethe's Werther and the protagonists of Turgenev and Dostoyevsky. This portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian