Dreamers

A small piece of literature, describing life of a small fishermen’s village in Nordland, where the author spent his childhood. Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian writher, (1859 –1952) used to say, that it was one of his best works, joyous and cheerful. The author continued to write of the characters, which one way or another had appeared in his previous novels. The protagonist, typist Ove Rolandsen, is somewhat madcap and daydreamer, who gets into and out of scrapes. Rolandsen is the first Hamsun’s charac