![]() ![]() One would not guess that the Swedish Academy passes out Nobel Prizes for jolly stuff. ''To stand alone, is not that the perfection of life, They possess, however, the pride of their independence. He and his family live in a turfed room a ladder leads to the horse, dog and sheep below. The novel's protagonist, a proud farmer named Bjartur, walks like the old skaldic heroes through an almost empty landscape, dreamy and bloody, where meanings lie bare and people toil as they have toiled for 8,000 years, since the discovery of agriculture. ''Independent People'' is only one of the compassionate, scathing novels for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1955. Intage International has reissued the great Icelandic novel ''Independent People.'' Halldor Laxness, who wrote it, is 95 years old he lives in a farmhouseġ20 miles from Reykjavik. ![]()
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