Another Post on Halldór Laxness

The New Yorker published a good examination of Halldór Laxness' life and career in The Rediscovery of Halldór Laxness. I read is Independent People and loved it. I like this from the article as stating why reading him is worthwhile:

Laxness once wrote in a letter that he felt “like a man who is rowing for his life on a little boat out on the open sea.” If that image conveys the novelist’s fundamental loneliness as well as her strange belief that, seated in a quiet room while the hot radiator ticks and the snow falls outside, she is engaged in a matter of life and death, it also conveys the feeling you get from reading Laxness: that, despite his mischievous show of ease, he is giving his book everything he has in the hope that it will exceed him.

I have two posts on Laxness: Halldor Laxness - Culture for Writers?, and Writer: Halldór Laxness.

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