Dreamers (Sværmere)

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Author: Knut Hamsun ISBN: 1230001323436
Publisher: LivingstoneEbook Publication: August 28, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Knut Hamsun
ISBN: 1230001323436
Publisher: LivingstoneEbook
Publication: August 28, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays.

Dreamers (1904) is set in the trading post of Rosengård, in the north of Norway, where a brother of Mack from Sirilund is the most important man.

The main character is a solid but charming and creative telegraphist named Ove Rolandsen. Rolandsen is engaged to Miss van Loos, at the same time as he is in love with Elise, daughter of the local business magnate. The novel also offers a fine description of the troubled marriage of the village priest, and there is a fascinating portrait of the priest’s scatty and impulsive wife.

Dreamers gives a good picture of life in a small trading post around the turn of the last century, with a keynote of hard realism that contrasts with the focus in the earlier novels on the strange and enigmatic personalities of his wanderers and artists figures.
«Marie van Loos, the housekeeper at the rectory, stands in the kitchen window and looks out along the road. She recognises the two up there by gate, it’s none other than Rolandsen the telegraphist, her own fiancé, and Olga, the sexton’s daughter. This was the second time she’s seen the two of them together; what was going on? If Miss van Loos hadn’t been so busy she would have gone straight up to them and demanded an explanation.»

 

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Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays.

Dreamers (1904) is set in the trading post of Rosengård, in the north of Norway, where a brother of Mack from Sirilund is the most important man.

The main character is a solid but charming and creative telegraphist named Ove Rolandsen. Rolandsen is engaged to Miss van Loos, at the same time as he is in love with Elise, daughter of the local business magnate. The novel also offers a fine description of the troubled marriage of the village priest, and there is a fascinating portrait of the priest’s scatty and impulsive wife.

Dreamers gives a good picture of life in a small trading post around the turn of the last century, with a keynote of hard realism that contrasts with the focus in the earlier novels on the strange and enigmatic personalities of his wanderers and artists figures.
«Marie van Loos, the housekeeper at the rectory, stands in the kitchen window and looks out along the road. She recognises the two up there by gate, it’s none other than Rolandsen the telegraphist, her own fiancé, and Olga, the sexton’s daughter. This was the second time she’s seen the two of them together; what was going on? If Miss van Loos hadn’t been so busy she would have gone straight up to them and demanded an explanation.»

 

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