Best work by Knut Hamsun?

[Kyriakos]

I have read two books by him, the Blessing of the soil, and Hunger. I liked both, but i read them many years ago and do not recall much now other than fleeting impressions.

Which other work by him would you advise me to read? And if i end up re-reading one of the two i have already read, which is the better choice?

[Desolation]

Hunger is one of the best things I've ever read.

Mysteries is also pretty astounding.

[Paulclem]

Hunger is one of the best things I've ever read.

Mysteries is also pretty astounding.

Agreed. Unusual thinking in both books.

Hunger also takes us back to a time when you worked or starved - something we in the developed world don't have to contend with as our ancestors did only 60 years ago - though that's not the point of the novel.

I remember hearing that Hamsun cured himself of tuberculosis by riding a train across the USA and gulping down air to clear his lungs.

[Kyriakos]

Has he written any shorter works?
I have Mysteries as well, but iirc it is a novel (?)

[Desolation]

Pan and Victoria are both pretty short. I believe that they qualify as Novellas.

[TheFifthElement]

Both Pan and Victoria are pretty good, but really Hunger is his stand out work.

[mortalterror]

I liked Hunger but it felt like a watered down version of Catcher in the Rye even though I know Hunger predates the latter book by decades.