The Roots Of Coincidence

Politics & Social Sciences

Arthur Koestler

Philosophy

Picador/Pan Books

<p>The Wanderer , which consists of two closely related novels, Under the Autumn Star and On Muted Strings , has been acclaimed as one of Knut Hamsun's finest works.\nThe narrator, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's real name), is an unsimple character in search of the simple life, which he hopes to attain by wandering round the Norwegian countryside doing such work as he can find. His quest is continually frustrated, not least by his susceptibility to the wives and daughters of successive employers.\nIn Under the Autumn Star he joins forces first with Grindhusen, a man blessed with the faith that "something will turn up"; later with Lars Falkenberg, whose dubious talents include the tuning of pianos. Knut and Lars end up as workmen on the estate of a certain Captain Falkenberg (no relation), with whose wife each falls in love. In due course, Knut is laid off and, in futile pursuit of the woman with whom by now he is helplessly infatuated, eventually finds himself sucked back into the city he fled.\n"A wanderer plays on muted strings," explains Knut, now six years older, "when he reaches the age of two score years and ten." Among this sequel's qualities is the poignancy with which it conveys that sense of aging.\nBoth novels show Hamsun at the height of his lyrical and passionate, ironic yet deeply humane, master of one of the most original prose styles in modern literature, brilliantly translated here by Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass.</p>

Wanderer

Knut, Hamsun

Literature & Fiction

novel (1920), tr Norwegian by Oliver G Stallybrass

The Women at the Pump

Stallybrass, Gunnvor

Stallybrass, Oliver

Hamsun. Knut

Literary

Growth of the Soil

Classics

<p>Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.</p>

The Viceroy Of Ouidah

CHATWIN, BRUCE

Contemporary

"Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." ―John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.

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Self-Help

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