Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . e. Instead he chose at the outset a business career; and bought a brickand tile factory at Malk, near Stavanger, which he managed withability until 1881, when it was sold to a stock company. His first literary work saw the light under these conditions. Hiscareer began with a series of short stories, which appeared anony-mously in the Christiania Dagblad. These first tales, with otherswritten subsequently, went to make up the material of his first twobooks, (1879), and (1880). Several winters spent in Paris, and the study of modern Fr
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . e. Instead he chose at the outset a business career; and bought a brickand tile factory at Malk, near Stavanger, which he managed withability until 1881, when it was sold to a stock company. His first literary work saw the light under these conditions. Hiscareer began with a series of short stories, which appeared anony-mously in the Christiania Dagblad. These first tales, with otherswritten subsequently, went to make up the material of his first twobooks, (1879), and (1880). Several winters spent in Paris, and the study of modern Frenchliterature, established the characteristic tendency of his genius. Manyof his novelettes and short stories are so essentially French in methodand manner, that except for their environment they might equallywell have been the product of French soil. To associate him wdthDaudet is natural and inevitable; for in his point of view and treat-ment of material he most resembles that great master of short Alexander Kielland 8q66 ALEXANDER KIELLAXD Kiellands use of the Xorwegian language is a revelation, and itflows from his pen in incisive and often sparkling sentences. No oneever before has used the language as he uses it. In his hands it isa. medium of the utmost clarity, and transmits every delicate shade ofmeaning. It lends itself readily to translation, but very little has as3-et found its way into English. * Garman and Worse has been trans-lated by W. W. Kettlewell (London, 1885), by theEarl of Ducie (London, 1885), and William Archer has translated anumber of short stories which have been published under the title of (1891). Kiellands first novel, < Garman and Worse* (1880), demonstrated hisseriousness of purpose. It is a social study of bourgeois life in thetowns of the western coast of Norway, and treats of types of char-acter with which the author has all his life been familiar. Inevita-bly it is autobiographical, par
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