Mysteries

A strange mixture of Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Camus. I guess influenced by Dostoyevsky and Kafka, and influencing Camus, who was of course, influenced himself by Kafka and Dostoyevsky. The use of stream of consciousness as a tool is extensive, but different in that it does not necessarily reveal truth, as the characters lie to themselves and deceive themselves, or at least the main character does. He has a tremendous impact on people due ton his odd and self-dramatising behaviour. But his constant changing of his own story of himself makes it difficult to know what to think, which I believe is Hamsun???s point. Entertaining, with the added bit of knowing that it is not as straightforward as it seems.