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Arne Garborg (1851-1924      

Norwegian writer of the naturalistic school. He founded the weekly Fedraheim (1877), in which he urged reforms in many spheres-political, social, religious, agrarian, and linguistic. Garborg championed the use of Nynorsk, New Norwegian, which is based on rural dialects, as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into it. Several of his early novels presented male views in the debate on sexual morality conduted throughout the 1880s. Two outstanding novels, Tired Men (1891) and Peace (1892, tr. 1929), relate the tragic disintegration of morally bankrupt and guilt-ridden men


coi bori te pol ver tuto, i disi. Bale! Te pol comprarte de magnar ma no l\'apetito; le medizine ma no la salute; i stramazi morbidi ma no el sono; el saver ma no el capir; l\'aparenza ma no el star ben; el divertimento ma no el piazer; le conossenze ma no l\'amicizia; i servi ma no la fedeltà; i cavei grisi ma no la rispetabilità; un pèr de giorni tranquili ma no la pase. Coi bori te rivi a ver la scorza de ogni roba, ma no el fruto. Quel coi bori no se lo compra