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Under the Glacier was originally called Christianity at Glacier. It tells of the Bishop of Iceland sending a young emissary to investigate a strange parish in the area of Snaefellsness in the west of Iceland.
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In 1968 Laxness published the "visionary novel" Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier / Christianity at the Glacier). In the 1970s he published what he called "essay novels": Innansveitarkronika ( A Parish Chronicle , 1970) and Guðsgjafaþula ( A Narration of God's Gifts , 1972).
- 8 February 1998 (aged 95), Reykjavík, Iceland
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1955)
If Under the Glacier was an animal, it’d be a chimera–a lion with a goat’s head growing out of its middle, and a serpent for a tail. To call this book a fable is to name the serpent and ignore the other heads; to call it a critique of Christianity is to name the lion alone, and to call it a comic novel is to term the goat an ass.
10 de oct. de 2011 · Wisdom lit. Spoof. Sexual turn-on. Convention dictates that we slot many of the last centuries’ perdurable literary achievements into one or another of these categories. The only novel I know that fits into all of them is Halldor Laxness’s wildly original, morose, uproarious Under the Glacier.
8 de mar. de 2005 · The bishop of Iceland sends an emissary to investigate the state of Christianity in the small town of Glacier, where the church building is falling apart, the children aren't being baptized, the dead aren't being buried, and a casket has supposedly been deposited on a glacier.
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- Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson
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- Vintage
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...
Under the Glacier, 2005 . These Laxness books are currently in print in English in Iceland and can be ordered from randburg.com: Independent People, Harvell Press, London, 1999; Under the Glacier, 1968 (N.B.: same as Christianity at Glacier, Helgafell, Reykjavík, 1972) The Bread of Life, 1987
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