„Nachts denkt man anders als am Tage“ – Laxness’ Alþýðubókin
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2000
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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A turn of ideas in the history of Laxness’ literary
production is marked by the compilation of the author’s early
journalistic opuscula in “a book of brilliant burlesque and satirical
essays, Alpydubokin” (Stefan Einarsson: A History o f Icelandic
Literature, 1957, 317-318), written in California from 1927 to 1929,
published in Iceland (1929). The importance of the book and of the
author’s commentary in the foreword to the second edition of 1945
are uncontested and frequently talked over in the Laxness
literature, yet the book is badly known outside Icelandic speaking
circles, because there are no translations at hand. This paper tries
to give an impression o f the various articles and essays by brief
annotations and representative translations of spots and highlights.
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 6, 2000, pp. 25-36.