Yet Glahn’s romantic nature will be his downfall. Like Pan, the Greek god of the woods, Glahn keeps to himself, and nature provides what little he needs in order to sustain himself. There he lives in harmony with nature and with his dog Æsop, not far from the village of Sirilund. Hamsun’s novel Pan is about Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, who, in 1855, moves to a hunting cabin in Northern Norway. The Norwegian book club heard of the project and wanted to use it in their deluxe binding. It became a larger cycle of paintings, stretching into 1995. This first illustration project came about rather indirectly, for Gullvåg had begun working with the Pan series on his own initiative already in 1991.
He also illustrated a French version of Pan, published by Calmann-Lévy, November 14, 1994, exactly the 100th birthday of the first publication. The publisher was Den norske bokklubben (1994). Gullvåg’s first book-project was a jubilee-publication marking the centenary of the publication of Knut Hamsun’s novel Pan (1894).
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