Word: moberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EARTH IS OURS-Whelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster...
Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...
...Young People's Society to keep peasant boys on the farm through cooperatives and communal culture. World War II was on the way before the Young People's Society got its community clubhouse started, but the book ends with them digging away - a symbol of what Author Moberg thinks the post war world should look like...
...Moberg's peasants, working always in the soil, thinking in terms of generations -of plants, of animals, of themselves - feel that they are part of a never-ending process of creation, deriving from the past, foreshadowing the future. This feeling makes them crudely mystical, stolidly enduring, slow to change, suspicious of the nervous life and fidgety minds of cities. Knut Hamsun understood that being a peasant is not just a rural occupation, but a complete way of living and thinking, with which he sympathized. Moberg understands the peasant's life too, but does not sympathize. He has ideas...