The things we do!

Even Telegraph-Rolandsen in "Dreamers" retains the
youthful glow and charm and irresponsibility that used to be thought
inseparable from the true Hamsun character.
It is therefore with something of a shock one encounters the enigmatic
Knut Pedersen from the Northlands, who has turned from literature to
tramping, who speaks of old age as if he had reached the proverbial
three-score and ten, and who time and again slips into something like
actual whining, as when he says of himself: "Time has worn me out so
that I have grown stupid and sterile and indifferent; now I look upon a
woman merely as literature." The two volumes named "Under the Autumn
Star" and "A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings" form an unbroken cry of
regret, and the object of that regret is the hey-day of youth--that
golden age of twenty-nine--when every woman regardless of age and colour
and caste was a challenging fragment of life.
Something more than the passing of years must have characterized the
period immediately proceeding the production of the two volumes just
mentioned.


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