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...ROAD (276 pp.)-Harry Martinson-Reynal...
Thus the tramps who trudge through The Road, a meandering, queerly poetic, semi-autobiographical novel which is the first book of Swedish Author Harry Martinson to be published in the U.S. The son of a sailor turned shopkeeper who died when the boy was only six, Author Martinson was left behind when his mother emigrated to the U.S., spent much of his boyhood and early youth tramping the world's roads and sailing the world's seas as sailor, cook, mechanic, abattoir worker and soldier of fortune...
...prolific writer whose works range from poetry to nature studies and radio plays, Martinson spent ten years writing The Road. The book is a patchwork of brief, often vivid, sometimes homely episodes of tramps' lives as they knock on the doors and consciences of the respectable and industrious, or sleep among Sweden's lovely hills and forests...
...early in the present century, and Martinson's tramps are already in rebellion against the demon of industry and the evils of an over-organized world. "Nowadays, there is an element of sadism in the very requirement that a man shall work. 'Now you shall feel it,' they say. 'Now you shall know what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes...
...GORDON MARTINSON Somewhere in North Africa...