Segelfoss Town

Segelfoss Town (1915) is an independent continuation of Children of the Age (1913).

Whereas Tobias Holmengraa and Willatz Holmsen stood for irreconcilable opposites, Segelfoss Town describes the love between Holmengraa’s daughter and Holmsen’s son as representing reconciliation and hope for the new society. The criticism of modern times is explicit, and symptomatic of the novel is the fact that the author’s mouthpiece, the telegraphist Baardson, takes his own life in Holmengraa’s cellar.

Children of the Age and Segelfoss Town are said to inaugurate the phase of Hamsun’s authorship devoted to social criticism.