Livets Spil. [Copenhagen: J. Jorgensen & Co.], 1896.
First edition.
Octavo [ii], 201, [1] pp. Half morocco and patterned boards with matching end-papers. Aside from some minor bumping to back board, an excellent copy, with the original wrappers bound in.
First edition of this play, one of only six to be written by the Nobel Laureate. Usually translated into English as “The Game of Life,†it is the second in a trilogy of plays portraying the life of Nietzschean zealot Ivar Kareno. Preceded by Ved Rigets Port (At the Gate of the Kingdom, 1895) and followed by Aftenrøde (Red of Evening, 1898), the three plays cover the three stages of Kareno’s life and follow his battles with love and old age.
Hamsun was a (1859-1952) Norwegian novelist, dramatist and poet. His impoverished childhood in Norway had a great influence on his writing, and the themes of poverty and isolation are pervasive. His other works include Growth of the Soil (for which he won the Nobel), Mysteries and Vagabonds. He is often linked with the spiritual movement of Pantheism due to his brilliant and intimate descriptions of nature.
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