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comes the main hero of the novel. The well-known Russian writer Alexander Kuprin, Hamsun’s contemporary, wrote, that” the main person of the novel - remains almost not named - is a mighty force of the Nature, the great Pan which breath is heard in the sea storm, and in white nights with the polar lights, and in mysterious love, which irrationally connects people, animals and flowers” [Ser geev, 1993, p. 633]. The northern nature, as Hamsun thinks, possesses absolute divine force. The images of the Scandinavian mythology can’t express its meta physical whole because they represent nature as a scene on which human being acts. But in a classical antiquity - Nature is the main force of a Universe, it is the Space. That’s why the main hero is shown as congenial to Pan. Lieutenant Glahn is the pantheist, he animates each natural being. Elemental Natural forces are similar to irrational feelings of his soul. He becomes sentimental when he admires sunrise or sea storm. He is on equal footing with stones, birds, flowers, insects, even with sea sons. A striking example of his pantheism can be found in describing of sea stone, it looks like the courteous wet god. As a philosopher Glahn connects mi crocosm with reaching Eternity when he observes small insect on the brink of the leaf. He rejects hypocrisy and utilitarian values of a modern society and searches for calm and healthy life in the country. “There was a stone outside my hut, a tall grey stone. It looked as if it had a sort of friendly towards me; as if it noticed me when I came by, and knew me again. I liked to go round that way past the stone when I went out in the morn ing; it was like leaving a good friend there, who I knew would be still waiting for me when I came back... And there came a storm... Earth and sky mingled together, the sea flung up into fantastic dancing figures of men and horses and fluttering banners on the air. I stood in the shelter of an overhanging rock, think ing many things, my soul was tense. Heaven knows, I thought to myself, what it is I am watching here, and why the sea should open before my eyes. Maybe I am seeing now the inner brain of the earth, how things are at work there, boiling and foaming...” [Hamsun, 1992, p. 438-439]. Unlike Ibsen, who represents the nature of the North abstractly (ice peaks of mountains, rocks, cold fjords, avalanches), Hamsun enumerates all the crea tures. Many flowers blossoms during the short northern summer: daisies, carna tions, a heather, a thistle, a raspberry brake, a yarrow, and also any white flow ers with strong fragrant... A lot of games are found in wood: black grouses, partridges, chaffinches, hares, ground beetles, caterpillars, may-bugs, bumblebees... Clouds of summer moths light-up the night. Short northern summer causes violent movement of life, in the afternoon, and at light polar night. Powerful flowering of the nature is shown as congenial to tragic love of Glahn and Edvarda. 105