Word: trampsing
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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...
A 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...
It is 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...
Critics & Other Tramps
Olga is only 20 but already an Ibsen-type "New Woman," independent, intelligent, indefatigable. She thinks she can reform Oblomov. He tramps the hills with her, reads poetry to her, and resolves to salvage his wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence...