Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Condition:Well Read from the ancient technologies of

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

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near

like his late father

learning about their island

Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Condition:Well Read from the ancient technologies ofFirst 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