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Wanderers

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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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Echo Library
Language
English
Pages
208

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Wanderers
May 14, 2014, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
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Wanderers
February 27, 2007, Echo Library
Paperback in English
Cover of: Wanderers
Wanderers
June 2005, North Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Wanderers
Wanderers
2005-03-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: Wanderer
Wanderer
1977, Pan Bks
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Wanderer
The Wanderer: Under the Autumn Star & On Muted Strings
1976, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Wanderers
Wanderers
1922, Knopf
in English
Cover of: Wanderers
Wanderers
1922, A.A. Knopf
in English

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
208
Dimensions
9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weight
11 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL11681971M
ISBN 10
1406838284
ISBN 13
9781406838282
Goodreads
4172018

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May 30, 2021 Edited by Lisa Merge works
April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
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