Segelfoss Town
Knut Hamsun, J. S Scott · 1915 · 368 pages
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This is a novel originally published in 1915 by the highly respected modernist writer from Norway, Knut Hamsun, who won the nobel prize for literature for his book Growth of the Soil (1917). Directly before writing this agrarian epic about the farmer Isaac, he wrote Children of the Age (1913) and Segelfoss Town (1915), which together tells the multi-generational tale of the aristocratic Holmsen family's rise and decline of fortunes on the Segelfoss estate. Segelfoss Town picks up where Children of the Age leaves off--the wave of mercantilism and industry ushered in by the mysterious "King Tobias" is now being taken up by a young upstart, the shopkeeper Theodore--son of the decrepit Per of Bua. As Segelfoss grows into a town run by shopkeepers and lawyers, how will the return of the musician savant and heir to Segelfoss estate Willatz Holmsen IV upset the balance? Can he fill the shoes of his peculiar father, the lieutenant Willatz Holmsen? Segelfoss Town tells a story with many winding paths. Peculiar events and characters whose all-too-human schemes unravel in a small bustling community in the romantic Nordland. There are acts of great munificence and crimes of pettiness. All must fall or stand by their philosophy in a wave of progress. Segelfoss Town is the concluding novel to its counterpart Children of the Age. "But Segelfoss was transformed; it was no longer the quiet and innocent Segelfoss it used to be. Innocent? "Segelfoss has become a bottomless pit," said Lars Manue
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