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Wanderers

Chapter 6 No.6

Word Count: 796 | Released on: 06/12/2017

tiently, and did not r

haps you're right. But it will cost a lot of mo

tarted to dig. Seventy steps for the maids to go th

his other way would cost

e; the whole installation, with work and material, ought n

t looked

that

if I were slow by nature, and born so. But, rea

" said the priest thoughtfully. "And that wate

arrying water to th

upstairs. It won't hel

pipes up to th

rooms? Will there be pressure

ore answering, as a stolid fellow,

for a jet the height

And then again: "Come and let us see

I let the priest look through my instrument, and sho

the other man ab

ce, and said: "Grindhusen? He'

st looke

y?" he

ain, the priest talk

ng water in the winter. And summer, too, for that

went

ent for round to the front steps

g to give us water laid on to

vy, stolid fashion, and the priest a

stions-would it really be a proper water-supply like they had in town, just turn on a tap and there was the water all rea

o up to the top of the hill and

I set the instrument fo

ul!" sai

en said ne

riest

sure there'

gment, that it was not a thing to swear to

of signs?"

notice there's willow and osiers gro

t nodded,

business, Mari

unwarrantably that she could manage with one maid less o

er all the garden with a hose fixed to the t

d!" she

l twice the size, and a branch pipe across the yard, the dairymaid would be saved as much as the kitchen-mai

ait till Grindhusen came back. The

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Knut Hamsun Literature

“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.”