Laxness’s wives tell their stories
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1996
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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No twentieth-century Icelandic author has enjoyed
success and popularity to rival that of Halldor Laxness. At the end of his
writing career, Laxness wrote four books which he called “novels in essay
form” or essais-romans, but which are generally considered to be
memoirs, written with artistic licence. These books are: 7 tuninu heima
(In the Field at Home) (1975), tJngur eg var (Young was I) (1976), Sjomeistarasagan
(The Story of Seven Masters) (1978), and Grikklandsarid
(The Year of Greece) (1980). They cover only a fraction of the author’s
life, up to the age of twenty. Readers have learned of his subsequent experiences
mostly through countless articles and interviews in the press,
on radio and television. Laxness has, at least since winning the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1955, been a public personality, although he has
been reticent about his private life.
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Laxness Halldor, Icelandic literature
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 3, 1996, pp. 121-130
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1230-4786