- Hardcover: 459 pages
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1981)
- ISBN-10: 0374286728
- ISBN-13: 978-0374286729
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
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4.7 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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A less known pearl of Hamsun, April 24 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wayfarers (Paperback)
While there are numerous comments on novels like "Hunger", "Pan", "Growth of the soil" and so on, little seems to be said about the "August-Trilogy", of which "Wayfarers" is the part one. In this trilogy many of Hamsuns most beloved qualities comes to its climax. Unlike "Hunger" and "Pan", - "Wayfarers" and "August" is full of hamsunian humour, that highly poetic sympathy that embraces his characters. The triology also exposes life in a poor norwegian fishing village from the Old days, in a realistic but also satirical way. It is quiet a piece of norwegian folklore, but still a part of world litterature. Its the work by Hamsun that is most likely to give you a good laugh, without missing the overall seriousness of matter. (The disastrous consequences of Capitalism in a small, vulnerable society). Its full of tragedy too, and, I think, as an artwork comparable to all his internationally more known works, like "Hunger" and "Growth of the soil".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I wish Wayfarers got more attention, Oct 29 2005
By demomo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wayfarers (Paperback)
I"ve read everything (in English) by Hamsun I've been able to find and, along with Growth of the Soil, this is my favorite. What some call lightness I think of as a calmness (absent from Hunger and Mysteries) that allows more of the character of Norway to show through. The timescale is long here and the kinds of immediate panic that move his more urban characters (and Glahn in Pan) are not as important in lives that stretch over time. These characters are friends, rather than loners (though they, as are we all, are that too), and I feel this book has more to communicate about ordinary people's lives than those about purely solitary men.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Wayfarers: the scent of life, Aug 4 2003
By dawn "mosaicwindow" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wayfarers (Paperback)
As winter turns to spring and spring to summer, the characters in "Wayfarers" go through their own transformations, which seem to parallel the passing of the seasons.One of the running themes is the issue of where a person belongs, their roots, the dichotomy between the drive to get away and the simple happiness which comes from living on one's native land, surrounded by familiar people.
But Hamsun's approach is never a theoretical, intellectual one, but rather a heart-breaking and painfully personal journey.
This novel will stay with me as an overwhelming memory, not because it gives answers to life's dilemmas, but because it poses crucial questions which stir the mind and awaken reflections on the human experience, all with the background landscape of sailboats on the Norwegian sea --
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