The Wanderer

By Knut Hamsun

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0285647873
• ISBN13: 9780285647879
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

The Wanderer

This is my least favorite out of the four by Hamsun I have read. As in most of what he wrote I think a lot of his personal screwiness comes through in the main character of the book. In this case its a man who spends his life roaming from town to town in Norway doing random labor for hire. He gets stalkerish obsessions with women who it is in innappropriate for him to have interest in, namely the wives of his employers. Mainly...

strange and original view of life

When I started reading The Wanderer I began to feel the treasure-seeker's thrill of discovery, as I realized that I had discovered a rich lode to be mined, a true original that defies categorization. The narrator of the two short novels which make up this volume certainly marched to the sound of a different drum-actuated by the myriad impacts of nature on his senses and by the rhythms of his own emotions. At the beginning...

strange and original view of life

I can see how this book might have a limited appeal for the general reader, for it is kind of "out there". But I must admit that now and then I relish reading something a little offbeat and cockeyed, and this book by Hamsun satisfies that description quite well. The narrator of the two short novels which make up this volume certainly marched to the sound of a different drum-actuated by the myriad impacts of nature on his senses...

A Valuable Return

When do you play 'on muted strings'? When you are 50 and seeking to make sense of the path you trod. This is the duo of tales Hamsun produced in his middle years, that draws the curtain on his early triumphs and (as it transpires) sets the scene for his later masterpieces the Wayfarers and Growth of the Soil. The division between the narrator and the author is threadbare here, artistically necessary; and through this you get...

Two of Hamsun's best books in one volume

With this short book, Hamsun once again came through. The book is about the civilized and cultured Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's birth-name), a man past his prime that is at the same time a gentleman and a hobo. He meets a man he used to work at road building with in his youth, and sheds his fine clothes to become part of the proletariats again. It's strange that he does this by choice, but Hamsun was probably saying that it doesn't...