![]() 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 once fled. ![]() 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 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. His quest is continually frustrated, not least by his susceptibility to the wives and daughters of successive employers. The 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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