- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Hushion House; Reprint edition (November 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1557133433
- ISBN-13: 978-1557133434
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 463 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,272,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A smooth and good novel,
This review is from: Under the Autumn Star (Paperback)
"Yesterday the sea was smooth as a mirror; it is smooth as a mirror today." That way the novel opens and it continues elegant and skilfully crafted by the master Knut Hamsun. It is the story about the wanderer Knut Pedersen (actually Hamsun's real name), wandering around the Norwegian countryside doing such work as he can find, while having his eyes wide open to study nature and his fellow human beings. "Under the Autumn Star" was first published in 1906 and the story about Knut Pedersen is continued in "On Muted Strings" from 1909. Both novels manage to hold the story and the atmosphere on the same high level all the way through, and they have earlier been published together in the same volume called "The Wanderer". Oliver and Gunnvor Stalllybrass have also done a very good translation. This is writing of very high quality and joyful reading, but not as fantastic as Hamsun's masterpieces as "Hunger", "Mysteries", "Pan", "Victoria" and "Growth of the Soil", though some pieces can remind a bit of "Mysteries", among else when he has a go against Henrik Ibsen who died the same year "Under the Autumn Star" was published.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A smooth and good novel,
By Frank-Tommy Olsen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Under the Autumn Star (Paperback)
"Yesterday the sea was smooth as a mirror; it is smooth as a mirror today." That way the novel opens and it continues elegant and skilfully crafted by the master Knut Hamsun. It is the story about the wanderer Knut Pedersen (actually Hamsun's real name), wandering around the Norwegian countryside doing such work as he can find, while having his eyes wide open to study nature and his fellow human beings. "Under the Autumn Star" was first published in 1906 and the story about Knut Pedersen is continued in "On Muted Strings" from 1909. Both novels manage to hold the story and the atmosphere on the same high level all the way through, and they have earlier been published together in the same volume called "The Wanderer". Oliver and Gunnvor Stalllybrass have also done a very good translation. This is writing of very high quality and joyful reading, but not as fantastic as Hamsun's masterpieces as "Hunger", "Mysteries", "Pan", "Victoria" and "Growth of the Soil", though some pieces can remind a bit of "Mysteries", among else when he has a go against Henrik Ibsen who died the same year "Under the Autumn Star" was published.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
My Favourite Book Of The Wanderer "Trilogy",
By Joseph Frank Dalbano "ErroneousFlint" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Under the Autumn Star (Paperback)
I completed this before Christmas and moved quickly on to the second of The Wanderer Trilogy, On Muted Strings.
This one may have been more enjoyable than the other two but it was The Last Joy which brought me to tearfully regret it's end. I will not say anything else that may serve as an obstacle to your immediate acquistiton of the three of them, beginning with this book. His knowledge and portrayal of the human condition is similar to Dostoyevsky, with more love towards the human race despite it's faults. Hamsun celebrates the flawed human for we are all one and beautiful. But then again, at times, I hate my fellow man and speak evil of him in dark corners. Hamsun wanders both of these paths and the arterial directions that spread o'er the face of time, past and present. |
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