Halldór Laxness (1902–1998)
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When presenting the 1955 Nobel Prize to Laxness, the Swedish Academy of Letters cited "his vivid writing, which has renewed the Icelandic narrative art." Laxness has been by turns a Catholic convert, a socialist, and a target of the radical press, some of whom accused Laxness of a class ambivalence mehr anzeigen the Saturday Review summarized this way: "Though Laxness came to believe that the novelist's best material is to be found in the proletariat, his rejection of middle-class concerns was never complete, and the ambiguity of his attitude toward the conflict of cultural values accounts for the mixture of humor and pathos that is characteristic of all his novels." Independent People (1934--35) was a bestseller in this country; Paradise Reclaimed Reclaimed (1960), based in part on Laxness's own experiences in the United States, is a novel about a nineteenth-century Icelandic farmer and his travels and experiences, culminating in his conversion to the Mormon church. Laxness owes much to the tradition of the sagas and writes with understated restraint, concentrating almost entirely on external details, from which he extracts the utmost in absurdity. An Atlantic writer found that The Fish Can Sing (1957), the adventures of a young man in 1900 who wants to be a singer, "simmers with an ironic, disrespectful mirth which gives unexpected dimensions to the themes of lost innocence and the nature of art." (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Mitwirkender — 131 Exemplare
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 11, Number 2 (Summer 1978) (1978) — Illustrator — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Laxness, Halldór
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Gudjonsson, Halldor
- Andere Namen
- Laxness, Halldór Kiljan
- Geburtstag
- 1902-04-23
- Todestag
- 1998-02-08
- Begräbnisort
- Mosfellskirkjugarður Mosfellsbæ, Mosfellsbaer, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Island
- Land (für Karte)
- Iceland
- Geburtsort
- Reykjavík, Danish Iceland
- Sterbeort
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Todesursache
- Alzheimer's disease
- Wohnorte
- Mosfellssveit, Iceland
- Ausbildung
- Reykjavík Lyceum
- Berufe
- novelist
screenwriter
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- Nobelpreis (Literatur, 1955)
- Kurzbiographie
- Halldor Laxness, an Icelandic author, received world-wide recognition after being awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Prize committee, he received this coveted award "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland." By 1948 he had received from literary scholars from around the world 25 nominations for the Nobel candidacy. As of 2021, he is the only Nobel Prize recipient from Iceland. During his writing career, he authored more than 60 works including novels, poems, plays, essays, short stories, memoirs, and travel books.
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Schräger nordischer Humor, stark satirisch, teilweise so traurig, dass der Witz beinahe deplatziert erscheint. Eine große Menagerie von Dilettanten, nicht unsympathisch, aber tragisch in ihrem Spiel mit dem Schicksal der Massen, das sie kaum zu berühren scheint.
Episodenhaft, stellenweise zusammenhanglos, manchmal sehr lustig, meist eher schwarzhumorig bis zur Ermüdung.
Ich bin nicht sicher, ob die schwergängigen, umständlichen Formulierungen eher dem Autor oder eher dem Übersetzer anzulasten sind, den Stil empfand ich jedenfalls als anstrengend und nicht sehr angenehm. Ich vermute, dass auch sehr viel hintergründiger Humor an mir vorübergegangen ist, weil ich zu wenig über das Island dieser Zeit weiß. Vielleicht sollte man das Buch mit Unterstützung durch Sekundärliteratur angehen.
Fazit: Nun ja. Habe schon Besseres gelesen.… (mehr)