Word: segelfoss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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