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Wanderers

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Chapter 1 No.1

Word Count: 948    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

th as glass it is again today. Indian summer on t

other life. But I have felt it some time, surely, since I go about now humming a little tune; go a

f the Caspian, where I once stood. All just as it is here, with the water still and heavy and iron-grey as now. I walked through the woods,

d been the

another land, where the woods and the woodland paths were the same. Perhaps I was

was a bird and flew all that long way. Or the

of the calling that came to me once more from the quiet, lonely tracts where I belong. "It will all come right this time," I te

any cost. And for the present I have taken a room i

eap themselves and sow themselves again, an inconceivable abundance to be squandered every single year. Over three hundred clusters I can cou

re a thing did not concern her. When the fishermen are down on the beach, painting their boats o

price of mackerel

e as yes

keep it, for

ld goes b

gone off like that before now, up to her cottage, without once looking back. So, "Hey" they ca

ild buys

ithout sleeves, the very thing to make a body blue with cold, and mauve woollen undervests that pull out to no more than the thickness of a string. And how did these abominations get there? Why, 'tis the daughters, to be sure, the young girls o

e of the fishermen, her like in age and mind, and gets the uppers and the soles done in thoroughly with a powerful mess of stuff

but the thing seems a mistake, a very lie, to look at. Would any fisherman, now, have rowed out here with it and laid it down and rowed away again? I left it where it lay; it

per. And when supper's done, decent folk go to their beds, to be up again with the dawn. Only young and foolish creat

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“The Wanderer, which consists of two closely related novels, Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings, has been acclaimed as one of Knut Hamsun's finest works. The narrator, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's real name), is an unsimple character in search of the simple life, which he hopes to attain by wandering round the Norwegian countryside doing such work as he can find. His quest is continually frustrated, not least by his susceptibility to the wives and daughters of successive employers. In Under the Autumn Star he joins forces first with Grindhusen, a man blessed with the faith that "something will turn up"; later with Lars Falkenberg, whose dubious talents include the tuning of pianos. Knut and Lars end up as workmen on the estate of a certain Captain Falkenberg (no relation), with whose wife each falls in love. In due course, Knut is laid off and, in futile pursuit of the woman with whom by now he is helplessly infatuated, eventually finds himself sucked back into the city he once fled. "A wanderer plays on muted strings," explains Knut, now six years older, "when he reaches the age of two score years and ten." Among this sequel's qualities is the poignancy with which it conveys that sense of aging. Both novels show Hamsun at the height of his powers: lyrical and passionate, ironic yet deeply humane, master of one of the most original prose styles in modern literature, brilliantly translated here by Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass.”