SOURCE: "Neo-Realism," in History of Norwegian Literature, The Macmillan Company, 1933, pp. 443-512.

In the following excerpt, Jorgenson presents a thematic overview of Bojer's works.

A Procession is the first of a group of [Bojer's] early works, which may be given the common designation of political satires and includes broadly the productions of hal a dozen years between 1896 and 1902. They are more realistic than neo-romantic. The central emphasis is on the accusation that political parties and overheated agitation tend to warp the characters of men and to draw them away from the pursuits of useful labor. Work is Bojer's gospel. The bitter campaigns which accompanied the fall of the Sverdrup ministry are in the mind of the author so many scorching desert winds leaving the country arid and desolate. He continued the satire in The Eternal Strife (Den evigekrig) and in Mother Lea. Meanwhile he turned aside to another...