He seemed extremely agitated, and when the ship’s bell rang the third time, he hadn’t even paid the steward his bill. At the same time he surrendered his ticket to one of the ship’s officers, but made no move to go ashore, and began pacing up and down the deck. The porter from the Central Hotel went aboard and the man in the yellow suit handed him his baggage. It was the evening of the twelfth of June flags were flying all over town in honor of Miss Kielland’s engagement, which had been announced that day. One of them was a man wearing a loud yellow suit and an outsized corduroy cap. It all started at six one evening when a steamer landed at the dock and three passengers appeared on deck. At one point he had a visitor: a mysterious young lady who came for God knows what reason and dared stay only a few hours. A stranger by the name of Nagel appeared, a singular character who shook the town by his eccentric behavior and then vanished as suddenly as he had come.
In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began happening in a small Norwegian coastal town. But they cast themselves out, on the gigantic centrifuge of their own pride.” James Wood
“ Hamsun’s heroes of the 1890s are seen, in most criticism, as ‘outcasts’.
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