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with which his father had killed a man in the war, but the bullet 
glances off from the antler of the elk and kills Gaupa’s faithful dog. 
Then he is, of course, more sure than ever that the animal is bewitched. 
The end of the hunt is not until many years afterwards, when Gaupa, 
old and bedridden with rheumatism, suddenly feels the call of the 
wild and crawls out of his den to find his old enemy helplessly stuck in 
the snow. He manages to throw himself on the animal’s back, and 
the elk—now grown old like the man—can not shake him off but 
rushes wildly out over a precipice. As they roll down, Gaupa stabs 
the elk, but the animal hits him a deadly blow with his forefoot. The 
rising sun finds them both together, the elk with his head on Gaupa’s 
breast. 
Fonhus has managed to cast a spell of fascination over this tale, 
and the reader follows Gaupa on his hunt with breathless interest. Per¬ 
haps it is, as Johannes V. Jensen says of him, “Norwegian atmosphere, 
Norwegian nature, stern and inexorable. A new man has arisen who 
understands it and can express it.” 
Hans E. Kinck has written novels of Norwegian peasant life and 
alternates between these and Italian subjects. This year he has pub¬ 
lished a Renaissance drama, Lisabetta s Brothers (Lisabettas Brodre, 
Aschehoug, 1921 ). The three brothers are men of about fifty who 
have not yet renounced the pleasures of youth, but reveal in their erotic 
adventures a coarseness that comes when youth’s ethereal dreams and 
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sentiments have passed and only desire remains. It is a repulsive sub¬ 
ject, though treated with Kinck’s 
usual psychological finesse and 
wealth of poetic diction. 
The books that deal with the 
ordinary conventional middle- 
class life, which forms so large 
a part of the Norway most of us 
know, are few and undistin¬ 
guished. Almost the only one of 
note this season is Kristian 
Elster’s Gold and the Green¬ 
wood (Giddet og de gronne 
Shove, Aschehoug, 1921 ). It 
is a novel based on the somewhat 
hasty assumption that a man in 
becoming wealthy and a prom¬ 
inent citizen necessarily loses the 
true values of life. It is rather 
loosely put together and is not 
so strong as previous works by 
this popular author. Gabriel 
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