Wayfarers (James MacFarlane 1980 Translation)
✍ Scribed by Knut Hamsun
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press
- Year
- 1927
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 314 KB
- Edition
- Condor Book ebook (2012)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0285641603
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✦ Synopsis
{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
Kindle, 459 pages
Published 1927
Condor Book ebook (2012)
Translated by: James MacFarlane (1980)
Originally published under the title Landstrykere
As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins, it brings progressive alienation from the old traditions; for August, the lying, charming scoundrel, it means opportunities that will threaten the stability of an unspoiled community. With comic irony and a haunting power, Hamsun charts the slow disintegration of the old way of life in a magnificent novel that provides brilliant insights into human nature: the visiting skipper who is lured to his death by Ane Marie because, hurtfully, he did not makes advances to her; the old watch seller who is as ready to cheat himself as he is to swindle others; the poignant, painful love affair between Edevart and the barefoot Lovise Magrete. Written seven years after Hamsun received the Nobel Prize for literature, Wayfarers is a masterpiece by one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.
August-trilogien Series:
Book 1 - Wayfarers (1927)
Book 2 - August (1930)
Book 3 - The Road Leads on (1933)