The things we do!

Lieutenant Glahn might survive the passions and defiances of
his youth and lapse into the more or less wistful resignation of Knut
Pedersen from the Northlands, but the cautious, puzzled Knut has
moments when he shows not only the Glahn limp but the Glahn fire.
Just when the second stage found clear expression is a little hard to
tell, but its most characteristic products are undoubtedly the two
volumes now offered to the American public, and it persists more or less
until 1912, when "The Last Joy" appeared, although the first signs of
Hamsun's final and greatest development showed themselves as early as
1904, when "Dreamers" was published. The difference between the second
and the third stages lies chiefly in a maturity and tolerance of vision
that restores the narrator's sense of humour and eliminates his own
personality from the story he has to tell.
Hamsun was twenty-nine when he finished "Hunger," and that was the age
given to one after another of his central figures.


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