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surprise of every one, he laid aside his pen with proud resignation,
and retired to the life of a government officer in a provincial
town (1891).

The early deceased Kristian Elster (died 1881) belonged to
the same generation. In two psychological novels, «Tora
Trondal» and «Farlige folk» (Dangerous People), and a book of short
stories, «Solskyer» (Sunny Clouds), he revealed a refined talent
for describing the deeper moods and feelings. After a hard struggle
to emancipate his personality and talent in the change of current
that took place about 1870 in the young intellectual life of
Scandinavia — it was Kristian Elster himself who introduced Turgenjev’s
novels in translations —, he joined the side that in the eighties
was victorious. But although he considered his artistical mission
to be that of a fighting pioneer, there is an under-current of poetic
feeling traceable in his sketches, which, if he had lived to see
the awakening in the nineties, would certainly have carried him
beyond the domains of moralising fiction. Two more prolific
authors of a nature akin to Elster’s are Kristian Gløersen and
John Paulsen. Fru [[** sic]] Marie Colban (died 1884) also developed
into a favourite novellist, though of an older school, after gaining
great esteem during the second empire by her interesting and
well-informed letters from Paris, where she had been a protégée
of the princess Mathilde.

Fru [[** sic]] Amalie Skram on the other hand is a thoroughly
naturalistic writer, lacking in sensitiveness and softening humour. A
long series of her romances paint the anything but cheerful legends
of several generations of «Hellemyr People» in forcible colours;
while two others give affecting scenes from a lunatic asylum.

Hans Jæger’s writings are naturalistic in the extreme. His
wholly undisguised pictures in «Fra Kristiania-bohêmen» (the
Kristiania Bohême) in 1885, caused a tremendous stir by its direct
inculcation of the principle of free love. When the law pounced
upon the daring book, and its author had to pay the penalty of
the law for his doctrines, a sharp contention ensued on the subject
of the liberty of art. His novel «Syg kjærlighed» (Diseased
Affection) was also suppressed for its inconsiderate unveiling of the
closest relations between man and woman.

Of all the authors that came under the influence of
naturalism, Arne Garborg has gone through the most peculiar
personal development. With his deep necessity of experiencing every

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