The Wanderer: Under The Autumn Star And On Muted Strings
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of lyrical Norwegian fiction, The Wanderer binds together two novellas — Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings — that chronicle the restless journeys of Knut Hamsun's iconic vagabond, Knut Pedersen, as he drifts through the Norwegian countryside seeking labor, solitude, and fleeting human connection. Written with Hamsun's signature impressionistic prose, the narrative captures the bittersweet tension between a man's longing for freedom and his quiet ache for belonging, rendered through vivid seasonal landscapes and intimate, understated encounters. The tone is contemplative and elegiac, suffused with a gentle irony as the wanderer observes the rhythms of rural life — its loves, its hierarchies, and its small dignities — from the perspective of a perpetual outsider. Hamsun illustrates, with remarkable economy of language, how the open road is both a liberation and a kind of exile, making these two novellas among the most quietly profound works in Scandinavian literature.
Author: Knut Hamsun
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of lyrical Norwegian fiction, The Wanderer binds together two novellas — Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings — that chronicle the restless journeys of Knut Hamsun's iconic vagabond, Knut Pedersen, as he drifts through the Norwegian countryside seeking labor, solitude, and fleeting human connection. Written with Hamsun's signature impressionistic prose, the narrative captures the bittersweet tension between a man's longing for freedom and his quiet ache for belonging, rendered through vivid seasonal landscapes and intimate, understated encounters. The tone is contemplative and elegiac, suffused with a gentle irony as the wanderer observes the rhythms of rural life — its loves, its hierarchies, and its small dignities — from the perspective of a perpetual outsider. Hamsun illustrates, with remarkable economy of language, how the open road is both a liberation and a kind of exile, making these two novellas among the most quietly profound works in Scandinavian literature.