Word: hamsun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROAD LEADS ON-Knut Hamsun- Coward-McCann...
Most writers stop writing long before they reach Knut Hamsun's age (73). But readers who feel nervous about an old man's maunderings need not hesitate to pick up Author Hamsun's latest and perhaps last book. Though The Road Leads On will not unduly excite a world which still remembers his monumental Growth of the Soil (1917), it would be a worthy and happy ending to a great career. Author Hamsun may lay down his pen in the consciousness that he has not overstayed either his welcome or his powers...
...finale of his Nordland novels (Segelfoss Town, Vagabonds, August), The Road Leads On finishes what Author Hamsun has to say about the modern world. His summing up is not complimentary but it is stated with tolerant, sometimes uproarious humor. His hero is "that" August, vagabond, Jack-of-all-trades, "a man who had sailed the seven seas and who was rags both inside and out ... a man of splendid virtues and brazen faults." Old now, and temporarily a useful citizen because he has no money in his pocket. Hamsun's epitome of the modern spirit turns...
...Strawman August but the liver creatures of Author Hamsun's fancy will most please U. S. readers: the sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely...
...Author. Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize Winner (Growth of the Soil, 1920), is Norway's No. 1 novelist. By 1918 his books had been translated into 23 languages, bettering Hans Christian Andersen's record by one. Says he, with proud humility: "In 100 years I shall be forgotten." Other books: Hunger...