Iceland S Bell

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426314

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Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness Pdf

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page. Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Ball is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.

Author : Kirsten Thisted,Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788772193649

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Denmark and the New North Atlantic by Kirsten Thisted,Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud Pdf

This book investigates how the emergence of the Arctic as a new geopolitical arena affects and reshapes the area known as the North Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and coastal Norway. The relationship between the center of the former Danish empire and its subordinates have rested on (varying degrees of) asymmetric power relations, that are intertwined with political as well as emotional bonds. With climate change a whole new reality is emerging in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas. Power is moving north, and new connections and partnerships are being developed. As the North Atlantic countries share a history as being part of a Danish empire, some of the hierarchies and mindsets inherited from the past still affect the present. This calls for an in-depth understanding of the cultural history of the North Atlantic as well as current relations. What narratives make up the foundation for contemporary cooperation? How are historical relations and narratives being reinterpreted today? How do postcolonial relations affect decision-making concerning natural resources? How do North Atlantic communities envision the future? A team of historians, literary theorists, art historians, ethno - graphers and culture and communication scholars with profound insight into the histories, languages and cultures of the North Atlantic have collaborated on this study of the North Atlantic countries as an emerging new center in the North. Foundations that made this publication possible: Carlsberg Foundation

Author : Halldór Laxness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:924405553

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ICELANDS BELL. by Halldór Laxness Pdf

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981987361

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The Great Weaver From Kashmir by Halldor Laxness Pdf

From Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness “Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the ‘sagas' shadow…to read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland—he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity.” — The Guardian “Finally, finally, an imposing work of fiction, which rises like a cliff from the flatness of Icelandic poetry and fiction of recent years!” —Kristján Albertsson, Vaka 1927 The Great Weaver from Kashmir is Laxness’ first major novel, the book that propelled Icelandic literature into the modern world. Shortly after World War One, Steinn Elliði, a young philosopher-poet dandy, leaves the physical and cultural confines of Iceland’s shores for mainland Europe, seeking to become “the most perfect man on earth.” His journey leads us through a wide range of moral, philosophical, religious, political, and social realms, from hedonism to socialism to aestheticism to Benedictine monasticism. Upon his return to Iceland, Steinn finds himself more conflicted than before, torn between love of the beauty and traditions of his homeland, longing and regret for his great adolescent love, Diljá, and his newfound monastic ideal, forcing him to make choices with fateful consequences. Published when Laxness was only twenty-five years old, The Great Weaver from Kashmir’s radical experimentation caused a stir in Iceland, which would soon reverberate throughout Europe. The Great Weaver is much more than a first major work by a literary master—it is a groundbreaking modernist classic.

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430311

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World Light by Halldor Laxness Pdf

A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

Author : Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802149244

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Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Pdf

“Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman.” —Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla’s opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art—as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. “Only a great book can make you feel you’re really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it.” —Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon “[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English prose literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106007790774

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Iceland Saga by Magnus Magnusson Pdf

Author : Magnús Magnússon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122156016

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Iceland Saga by Magnús Magnússon Pdf

The world-famous Icelandic sagas related to the spectacular living landscapes of today.

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429889

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Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness Pdf

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679767923

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Independent People by Halldor Laxness Pdf

From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Scandinavia
ISBN : UVA:X006173784

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Scandinavian Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis R. McBride
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022348077

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Iceland by Francis R. McBride Pdf

The Republic of iceland, situated near the Arctic Circle, comprises one large island and numerous smaller ones. Iceland became independent in 1944 and is a founder-member of the Nordic Council, and a member of NATO and the Council for Europe. Iceland is the most geologically active country in the world, with geysers, volcanoes, hot springs, glaciers, and spectacular waterfalls. This descriptive, annotated bibliography provides an updated listing of significant books and articles about Iceland.

Author : Elias Bredsdorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Scandinavian literature
ISBN : IND:30000115547212

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Scandinavica by Elias Bredsdorff Pdf

Author : Nicola Dibben
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : UCSD:31822037351566

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Björk by Nicola Dibben Pdf

Provides an account of Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork's work. This book presents an analysis of audio and video tracks, live performances and recorded sound, looked at through the interviews, videos, critical reception, and fanzines that surround the music. It focuses on her solo career from Debut onwards.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPNGI

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Scotland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden by Anonim Pdf